Hi,
In the course of trying to resolve a problem with sendmail (refusing to deliver even local mail), I saw a note in the sendmail configuration docs which says "host localhost must resolve to 127.0.0.1". However, when I checked my system I instead found (details obscured):
# host localhost localhost.my.domain is a nickname for my.domain my.domain has address 202.x.x.x
Someone suggested I check localhost.:
# host localhost. Host not found.
I'm not (wasn't) running a nameserver, my host.conf contains the entries hosts and bind in that order, resolv.conf has a single, automatic (from PPPoE) nameserver entry which works, hostname is set to this_machine.my.domain.
hosts contains ::1 localhost.my.domain localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain localhost 192.168.100.1 this_machine.my.domain this_machine 192.168.100.2 another_machine.my.domain another_machine ...
Your #/etc/hosts file should read for IPv4 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.Your_local_domain.com localhost
There should be another line in #/etc/hosts your host 192.168.100.1 My_host.Your_local_domain.com My_host
You can add as many lines as you want. with IP address, hostname, nickname.
-Ryan
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