Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 17:29:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "Susan O'Brien" <srobrien@mss.mmr.lucent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518172725.21904A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <35609BB3.AAD62767@mss.lucent.com>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Susan O'Brien wrote: > May 18 14:14:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: My unqualified host name > (canetsoft) unknown; sleeping for retry > May 18 14:15:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: unable to qualify my own > domain name (canetsoft) -- using short name sendmail *really* likes to use DNS for name resolution. Sounds like you are using /etc/hosts instead of named. There is a way to get sendmail to use /etc/hosts (check www.sendmail.org) but I'd suggest either a) running named b) setting /etc/resolv.conf to point at functional name servers that know about your machine. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net 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
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