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
local
W. Sierke wrote:
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):
# hos
Hello!
> # 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.
AFAIK the host command doesn't use /etc/hosts. No matter what is
specified in /etc/host.conf, the h
From: "Ryan Merrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> W. Sierke wrote:
> >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 f