From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 5 9:21: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat199.136.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.199.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A039837BF82 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA83339 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:20:11 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:20:11 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: DNS problem with 4.0-STABLE? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morning all ... Spent the past couple of hours working through a problem with sendmail 8.10.1 and it seems to come down to the fact taht 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' don't resolve: ============== nslookup 127.0.0.1 Server: hub.org Address: 216.126.84.1 *** hub.org can't find 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host/domain hub# nslookup localhost Server: hub.org Address: 216.126.84.1 *** hub.org can't find localhost: Non-existent host/domain =========== but, its in my /etc/hosts file: ======== hub# cat /etc/hosts # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.11 2000/02/15 14:59:16 shin Exp $ # # Host Database # This file should contain the addresses and aliases # for local hosts that share this file. # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. # # 127.0.0.1 localhost ======== and, according to /etc/host.conf, it should be looked at first: ========= hub# cat /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter 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 ========== am I mis-understanding something, or is there a problem? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message