From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 16:25:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scooby.lineone.net (doggy.lineone.net [194.75.152.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE2837C321 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Roger@aeon-uk.net) Received: from unspecified.host (host213-1-59-88.host.btclick.com [213.1.59.88]) by scooby.lineone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA21549; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:25:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from 192.168.0.2 ([192.168.0.2]) by 192.168.0.1 (WinRoute Pro 4.1) with SMTP; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:26:56 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Roger Bacon" To: , "FreeBSD-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: dchp Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:24:32 +0100 Message-ID: <000801bfe2ea$59013820$0200a8c0@ESMERELDA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20000630231242.UGTX16390.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@mail> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG doesn't seem to be working /etc/hosts as follows 127.0.0.1 localhost FreeBSD1. 192.168.0.6 FreeBSD1. where 192.168.0.6 is the address always assigned by the DCHP server -----Original Message----- From: prmoyer@mail.webneticsuk.co.uk [mailto:prmoyer@mail.webneticsuk.co.uk]On Behalf Of Philip R. Moyer Sent: 01 July 2000 00:13 To: ROger@aeon-uk.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dchp Roger writes: >Thanks. Now I get sendmail reporting the following while booting, > and when I try to send any mail > >Jun 30 23:44:33 FreeBSD sendmail[211]: My unqualified host name >(FreeBSD1) unknown; sleeping for retry >Jun 30 23:45:34 FreeBSD sendmail[211]: unable to qualify my own domain >name (FreeBSD1) -- using short name Edit /etc/hosts and make sure you have an alias "FreeBSD1." for FreeBSD1 (note the period after the name). I don't know if this is the technically correct fix, but it works. Na zdarovye, Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message