From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 23:32:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omsk.mushinsky.net (omsk.mushinsky.net [66.9.37.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B0B37B408 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:32:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imush@mail.ru) Received: from omsk.mushinsky.net (itz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by omsk.mushinsky.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5E6VwW01715 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:31:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from imush@mail.ru) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: Isaac Mushinsky To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Hostname Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:31:58 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010614061219.8584.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010614061219.8584.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061402315801.00461@omsk.mushinsky.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If the hostname cannot be reverse-nslookup'ed, your sendmail may have=20 problems. Some mail hosts reject mail from "unqualified" hosts (that is, = they=20 cannot verify your hostname from IP and suspect evil). In most cases it w= ill=20 work fine. If your IP is static, your ISP will usually give it some name (like=20 node99.xxdsl.com). Try use that. With dynamic IP, I am not sure what your= =20 options are. You can probably give your sendmail your IP as hostname in=20 sendmail.cf and then restart it. On Thursday 14 June 2001 02:12, you wrote: > I connect to the internet with DSL and I am using an > ehternet card. My question is if my machine does not > have a domain name(has just an ip address), then what > value do I use for 'hostname' in the rc.conf file. > Right now I just put in a word, 'Buster' I think I > used, but at boot up when sendmail starts up it waits > for a few minutes with the msg 'My unqualified host > name (Buster) unknown: Sleeping for retry' and then > then prints 'using short name'. Can someone explain > please. Thank you. > > Wayne > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. > http://buzz.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message