From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 17:29:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21613 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21471 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA22584; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 17:29:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Susan O'Brien" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail In-Reply-To: <35609BB3.AAD62767@mss.lucent.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 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