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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:23:08 +0200 (CEST)
From:      malte@webmore.com
To:        kent@iastate.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: sendmail - unqualified host name unknown?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980613122308.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806121744.MAA03990@isua2.iastate.edu>

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Seems you set hostname to "pseudo" in /etc/rc.conf (?)

If yes, you will need something like this in /etc/hosts:
  1.2.3.4       pseudo.

Notice the "." at the end

Malte.

On 12-Jun-98 Kent Vander Velden wrote:
> 
>   I get lots of these messages in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun 12 10:53:15 pseudo sendmail[1829]: My unqualified host name (pseudo)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> Jun 12 10:54:15 pseudo sendmail[1829]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (pseudo) -- using short name
> 
>   This delays deliverly of local mail ~ 2 minutes and creates a lengthy
> pause on startup.  What can I do to disable this?
> 
>   Here is more information:
> 
> fft|Fri12:43pm} hostname
> pseudo
> fft|Fri12:43pm} domainname
> 
> fft|Fri12:43pm} nslookup pseudo
> *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.2: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> fft|Fri12:43pm} grep pseudo /etc/hosts
> 10.0.0.3                pseudo
> 
>   Thanks!
> 
> ---
> Kent Vander Velden
> kent@iastate.edu
> 
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