Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:44:29 -0500 From: Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't resolve localhost Message-ID: <38D6394D.8A62059D@afccc.af.mil>
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I suddenly can't resolve localhost. I found this when I tried
fetching my mail with fetchmail. It gave me this error message.
$ fetchmail --keep
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching mail from ...
fetchmail: Query status=10
The only other problem I've had is that cvsup can't find its own ip
address:
# cvsup /etc/cvsupfile
Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?
I've solved this in the past by dorking around with /etc/hosts but
it's never messed up fetchmail before. Now cvsup and fetchmail are
both hosed, and I can't get them to work again. Any suggestions?
Following Lehey's advice in CFBSD (p 557)
$ telnet localhost smtp
localhost: Unknown host
or more simply:
$ telnet localhost
localhost: Host name lookup failure
Telnetting to localhost or to the smtp listener does work if I use
127.0.0.1.
Now I was mucking around trying to set up a caching nameserver (also
following procedure in CFBSD). I've obviously changed my
configuration somehow. I've put everything back the way it was before
I started having this problem--or so I think. I think these are all
the relevant files. Can anyone think of another configuration file
I've forgotten? This is a standalone (3.4R) machine connecting by
modem to my ISP.
$ more /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost #there is a tab here. Is this tab sensitive?
#just tried it without --doesn't seem to be
$ more /etc/host.conf
# $Id: host.conf,v 1.5 1998/11/16 02:02:30 jkh Exp $
# First try the /etc/hosts file
hosts
# Now try the nameserver next.
bind
# If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
# nis
$ more /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 209.215.82.130
nameserver 209.215.82.133
$ more rc.conf
# This file now contains just the overrides from
/etc/defaults/rc.conf
# please make all changes to this file.
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
ifconfig_ppp0="inet netmask 255.255.255.0"
moused_enable="YES"
defaultrouter="NO"
network_interfaces="ppp0 lo0"
hostname="freebsd"
linux_enable="YES"
lpd_enable="YES"
browserPackage="lynx"
NOTE: never mucked with host.allow and host.equiv to my knowledge
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