From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 7 13:27:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04184 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 13:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castor2.freiepresse.de (castor2.freiepresse.de [194.25.232.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04179 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 13:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speedy.gerhardnet (ppp-pln184.freiepresse.de [194.25.234.184]) by castor2.freiepresse.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA05531 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 21:27:35 -0100 (Etc/GMT) Message-ID: <3399C3E3.B71@abo.freiepresse.de> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 22:26:11 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig Reply-To: G.Sittig@abo.freiepresse.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 [de] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: sendmail stuff... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alexander Batzios wrote: > > ... However,I need to have the > "127.0.0.1 independence" line in my /etc/hosts file because many > many other wonderful stuff I run need it. ... That's not actually a sendmail problem -- it's just that a) by convention (?) address 127.0.0.1 is assigned to name "localhost" b) the host's real name has a different IP address in case you don't have a real one -- there are some ranges reserved for testing purposes (don't remember the RFC, but they are 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x through 172.31.x.x and 192.168.x.x (that's why you see these here that often :) Now your hosts file should read 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.x.x independence and everything's fine (and you won't confuse the helping friend wondering why 'ping localhost' won't work :). -- virtually yours -- G.Sittig@abo.FreiePresse.DE If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.