Re: Re[4]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 05 Apr 2002 7:11 pm, Alan Poulton wrote: > Thursday, April 04, 2002, 10:43:10 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > It seems to me it might be useful for you to take a step away from the > > problem and realise three things. > > > > 1) Its not your computer but each interface that has an IP addres

Re[4]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-05 Thread Alan Poulton
Thursday, April 04, 2002, 10:43:10 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > It seems to me it might be useful for you to take a step away from the > problem and realise three things. > 1) Its not your computer but each interface that has an IP address That makes sense when I pause to think about it. =] As fo

Re: Re[2]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, April 4, Alan Poulton did write: > Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:35:53 PM, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > First question: do you want your FQDN to be > > hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net? With exim, I ran into some problems with > > that (mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] getting sent to my ISP and

Re: Re[2]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 05 Apr 2002 6:41 am, Alan Poulton wrote: > Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:35:53 PM, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > First question: do you want your FQDN to be > > hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net? With exim, I ran into some problems with > > that (mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] getting sent to my ISP and so

Re[2]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-04 Thread Alan Poulton
Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:35:53 PM, Richard Cobbe wrote: > First question: do you want your FQDN to be > hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net? With exim, I ran into some problems with > that (mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] getting sent to my ISP and so forth). I > ended up giving my system a hostname that wa

Re[2]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-04 Thread Alan Poulton
Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:18:42 PM, Crispin Wellington wrote: > You have a static IP with your ISP? And you want email delivered > directly? Is that whats going on. > Or is it dynamic IP, with sendmail as your MTA? I have a Dynamic IP with my ISP. The only messages I want Linux to deal with a

Re: FQDN hostname

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, April 4, Alan Poulton did write: > I'm slowly isolating my problems with sendmail and variants. It seems > they're asking me for my Fully Qualified Domain Name. > > I've given the name of my box: hotstuff > > My ISP is telus.net, but they give me: bc.hsia.telus.net .. so I know

Re: FQDN hostname

2002-04-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 08:09, Alan Poulton wrote: > I'm slowly isolating my problems with sendmail and variants. It seems > they're asking me for my Fully Qualified Domain Name. > > I've given the name of my box: hotstuff > > My ISP is telus.net, but they give me: bc.hsia.telus.net .. so I know my

FQDN hostname

2002-04-04 Thread Alan Poulton
I'm slowly isolating my problems with sendmail and variants. It seems they're asking me for my Fully Qualified Domain Name. I've given the name of my box: hotstuff My ISP is telus.net, but they give me: bc.hsia.telus.net .. so I know my FQDN *should* be hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net But where do I

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Phil Brutsche writes: > Samba won't necessarily work if you don't have the hostname pointing to > the IP in /etc/hosts. Are you saying that samba will may not work if you have both lines, like this? 127.0.0.1 hasler.dhh hasler localhost 192.168.1.1 hasler.dhh h

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme >Could this be a case of the DHCP server treating Windows clients ssahme >differently than non-Windows clients ? Majority of the DHCP clients at ssahme >our place are Windoze boxes. yes, if they are pointed at different DNS then anything is possible

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Salman Ahmed writes: > > What should I add to this file so I can ping from the machine itself by > > giving its fqdn hostname ? > > 127.0.0.1 matrix. matrix localhost. > > With this line any process o

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Salman Ahmed writes: > But the second line in /etc/hosts will have to be updated/modified > whenever the DHCP lease for that IP address runs out. If you have a proper localhost line in /etc/hosts you don't actually need the IP of your interface in there at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Salman Ahmed writes: > What should I add to this file so I can ping from the machine itself by > giving its fqdn hostname ? 127.0.0.1 matrix. matrix localhost. With this line any process on the machine can reach the machine itself via the fqdn, the hostname, or just 'localhost'

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme > ssahme >Whenever I try to ping this machine (from itself) by giving the ssahme >fqdn hostname, I get an error message like: ssahme > ssahme > unknown host matrix.domain.com ssahme > ssahme >nslookup on that fqdn hostname g

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread hypnos
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Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
can ping this machine by using its fqdn > hostname from a windows box. But from the machine itself, I can't ping > the fqdn hostname. > > The /etc/hosts file for this machine is: > > 127.0.0.1 matrix localhost > > What should I add to this file so I can ping from the m

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
h ssahme >DHCP. After the DNS config update, I can ping this machine by using its ssahme >fqdn hostname from a windows box. But from the machine itself, I can't ssahme >ping the fqdn hostname. sounds as if the dns config on the linux box is not right? check /etc/resolv.conf, and show the

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme >how this work ? Will this approach require the network sysadmins to ssahme >change their (internal) DNS configuration ? Our network admins know of ssahme >only one OS: Windoze, and generally don't know d*** about ssahme >Unix/Linux/*BSD, so I am a l

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-29 Thread aphro
of hrs ago) + ssahme >kernel 2.2.13. The box gets its IP address via a DHCP server. I set the ssahme >hostname of this box when I first installed Debian (slink) off of the ssahme >CDs without any domain name. ssahme > ssahme >I noticed that from windoze boxes, I can't ping thi