From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 13:43:42 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 13:43:40 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CBC37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:43:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA35171; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:43:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:43:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set qualified domain for mail/sendmail? In-Reply-To: <3A563D38.D17260B4@mail.iowna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > Yes, it'll be obvious shortly. > sendmail is checking the DNS to verify your hostname. Your IP resolves > to ci490846-b.lxintn1.ky.home.com according to @HOME's DNS servers. > You could probably solve this by setting up a /etc/hosts file with the > name you want to use. I'm not sure if sendmail checks the DNS or hosts > file first, though, so you may have to do something more than that. > Possibly setting up a local DNS server on your machine, or reconfiguring > sendmail not to attempt to resolve IP addresses into DNS names. If you > do the last one, be careful that spammers can't abuse you! > Here is a snippet from my /etc/hosts file jfreeze@eeyore1 -> cat /etc/hosts | grep eeyore1 24.9.218.175 eeyore1 CI590846-B lxintn1.ky.home.com ==================================================== Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------- ** http://www.freeze.org ** ==================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message