From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 18:05:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4395316A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:05:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEEB43D49 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:05:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k1HI54Mf005466 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:05:05 +0200 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1HI4rA1013782; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:04:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k1HI4pMV013781; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:04:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:04:51 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Alex Zbyslaw , David Banning Message-ID: <20060217180451.GA13775@flame.pc> References: <20060217160651.GA22179@skytracker.ca> <002601c633dd$1a7349f0$1215450a@ad.ewsad.net> <20060217162952.GA31165@skytracker.ca> <20060217163347.GB13036@flame.pc> <20060217163844.GD31165@skytracker.ca> <20060217164447.GD13036@flame.pc> <20060217165042.GA40072@skytracker.ca> <43F604DE.1010101@dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43F604DE.1010101@dial.pipex.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.355, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.84, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail port 8025 conundrum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:05:23 -0000 On 2006-02-17 17:16, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >David Banning wrote: >>>Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf: >>> >>> [...] >> >> root# ls -l /etc/hosts* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1694 May 13 2005 /etc/hosts >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3027 Mar 27 2005 /etc/hosts.allow >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 421 Mar 27 2005 /etc/hosts.equiv >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 99 Apr 3 2003 /etc/hosts.lpd >> root# ls -tl /etc/nss* >> ls: /etc/nss*: No such file or directory >> root# > > Er, I'm pretty sure it's /etc/host.conf (no "s"). You're absolutely right, of course. Sorry for the confusion :-) > But if your /etc/hosts doesn't contain the hostname you are after, > that only leaves DNS, NIS and LDAP (I think) for the host.conf file to > order. For DNS, what does "host whatever.your.hostname.was" show from > the machine where you seem to be getting the wrong answer? Good question :)