Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:44:31 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone having dial-up problem with sendmail 8.11.0 ? (FIXED) Message-ID: <20000912214431.D22846@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <200009121419.e8CEJZh12561@greatoak.home>; from pcasidy@casidy.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:19:35PM %2B0200 References: <20000912092221.A29216@carroll.com> <200009121419.e8CEJZh12561@greatoak.home>
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 16:19 +0200, Philippe CASIDY wrote:
>
> I am proud to say that I solved my problem. But not proud at
> all of the solution.
>
> During the merge performed by mergemaster it replaces (well, I
> told him to) the entries for the localhost.
> Instead of
> 127.0.0.1 localhost greatoak.home
> I had
> 127.0.0.1 localhost myname.my.domain
> not exactly this but this is the idea.
It's generally considered a Bad Idea(TM) anyway to have any other
name assigned to 127.x.x.x but localhost. Just don't do so and
assign a "real" address to your NIF and name your machine
appropriately. Even if you don't get official IPs from ARIN and
friends, RFC1918 has plenty of them for your toying ...
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