Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:56:02 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minor sendmail issue .... Message-ID: <540F5B52.5070300@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140909213532.34f02807.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <540F26AC.7040309@hiwaay.net> <20140909182735.2bb371c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F3613.8060608@hiwaay.net> <20140909213532.34f02807.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 09/09/14 14:35, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:17:07 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> I think I have that point (matching names in rc.conf & hosts) covered: >> >> >> [root@kabini1, /etc, 12:14:40pm] 407 % grep -i kabini rc.conf hosts >> rc.conf:hostname="kabini1" >> hosts:192.168.0.27 jaguar kabini1 >> [root@kabini1, /etc, 12:14:41pm] 407 % > Yes, which means no: There's no entry for 127.0.0.1 for > that host. Local sendmail is listening on that IP. > > Also read "man 5 hosts" about what the fields of this > file, separated by spaces, indicate: > > <IP> <official host name> <alias(es)> > > As you can see, "jaguar", the official host name as per > hosts file, does not match the hostname "kabini1" set > in rc.conf. In order to have several names for one IP > (which is possible and valid), you can simply add more > than one entry for each IP, for example: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.local localhost > 127.0.0.1 kabini1.local kabini1 > 192.168.0.27 kabini1.local kabini1 > 192.168.0.27 jaguar.local jaguar > > You can check if your settings are correct by testing > them with the "host <name>" command. > > > >> but w/ no domain name .... I'll try jaguar.local in hosts & see how that >> goes .... Thx :-) .... > The domain name isn't essentially required, but it > does not harm to define one. :-) > > > Very well, I wasn't aware you could have multiple entries in the hosts files. I have been sloppy about official name & aliases for yeasrs now, might account for this & other odd but harmless behavior on my LAN :-/ .... I will make the changes as you recommend this shortly. The 'kabini1.local' can be in hosts but not rc.conf ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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