From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 10: 3:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D8637B491 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:03:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8850918BF; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:26:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BFF18BE; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:26:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:26:58 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Dana Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is my hostname? In-Reply-To: <039901c09773$d7dea5e0$5e681a41@kc.rr.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 > The problem is that MySQL and apache both say > cannot resolve hostname using localhost which is OK > by me. > However, when I try and use mail it tells me that the mail > was rejected because root@akadanak.kc.rr.com does > not exist. > > I connect to the internet just fine through roadrunner so > I have a hostname but what should it be so these things > will work? Sendmail or Postfix? I had the same problem with postfix and had to edit the config file to add my machine's localhost... found out it was acutally a typo... :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message