From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 03:27:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 03:27:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA27030 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 03:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) From: malte@webmore.com Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.188]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:28:51 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03760; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199806122123.QAA13859@isua1.iastate.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com To: Kent Vander Velden Subject: Re: sendmail - unqualified host name unknown? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Guy Helmer Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should really have a look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/ and build your own sendmail.cf Malte. On 12-Jun-98 Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > In message , > Guy Helmer writes: >>On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Kent Vander Velden wrote: >> >>> I get lots of these messages in /var/log/messages: >>> >>> Jun 12 10:53:15 pseudo sendmail[1829]: My unqualified host name (pseudo) >>> unknown; sleeping for retry >>> Jun 12 10:54:15 pseudo sendmail[1829]: unable to qualify my own domain >>> name (pseudo) -- using short name >>> >>> This delays deliverly of local mail ~ 2 minutes and creates a lengthy >>> pause on startup. What can I do to disable this? >>> >>> Here is more information: >>> >>> fft|Fri12:43pm} hostname >>> pseudo >>> fft|Fri12:43pm} domainname >>> >>> fft|Fri12:43pm} nslookup pseudo >>> *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.2: Non-existent >>> host/domain >>> *** Default servers are not available >>> fft|Fri12:43pm} grep pseudo /etc/hosts >>> 10.0.0.3 pseudo > > Guy, > > Thanks for your response. It is always great to hear from a local > person using FreeBSD! > >>What do you have in /etc/host.conf? You might want to place "hosts" >>first, then "bind", to try to get around this issue. Is it also possible >>that you have a name server specified in /etc/resolv.conf that is not >>reachable? One or both of these issues may be involved. > > Switch bind and hosts did not help. Sendmail still complains that it > cannot find the domain name. The name server is reachable although it > has other problems. > >>Finally, sendmail may be upset that your host name does not have a domain >>portion. It may be happier with something like "pseudo.iastate.edu" even >>though that is not a valid name to the rest of the 'net... > > I do not want to use pseudo.iastate.edu in fear of confusing this > machine with isu machines. This machine was at one time > pseudo.cc.iastate.edu. > > If I use the hostname "pseudo.". Notice the period appended to the > hostname then sendmail seems to do it's job without complaining. > > I was curious if there was something that I could change in > /etc/sendmail.cf for example to fix this. Perhaps an option that could > be changed so that all mail leaving this machine would have a To: line > of user@iastate.edu. Instead of the user@pseudo.iastate.edu that it > uses now. > > Thanks. > > --- > Kent Vander Velden > kent@iastate.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: malte@webmore.com Date: 13-Jun-98 Time: 12:20:37 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message