From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 17:27:24 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 0A59137B687 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:27:13 -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 BAA13573; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 01:26:32 +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 01:28:02 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Roger Bacon" To: "'Dan Busarow'" , "FreeBSD-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: dchp Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 01:25:37 +0100 Message-ID: <000901bfe2f2$e1b7b7e0$0200a8c0@ESMERELDA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hadn't had sendmail working before, and I'm not running a name server on the FreeBSD box. The name server is the DCHP server is the router / NAT for a modem link and is running on NT4 machine that I have to use -----Original Message----- From: Dan Busarow [mailto:dan@dpcsys.com] Sent: 01 July 2000 00:24 To: Roger Bacon Cc: FreeBSD-Questions (E-mail) Subject: RE: dchp On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Roger Bacon wrote: > 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 /etc/dhclient.script updates /etc/resolv.conf I have these two lines that allow my FreeBSD name server to be used in preference to the outside ones. supersede domain-name "your-domain.net"; prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; If you had sendmail working before this should be enough to get you going. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message