Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:09:19 +0000 From: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Setting hostname - fake and real Message-ID: <200503090809.19374.ben@spooty.net>
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Hello, Is there an easy way to set a fake hostname in rc.conf which will let sendmail send mail to external domains? For ages I've had the line in rc.conf hostname="potato.fake_domain.net" (not exactly, but you see what I mean...) and I've had no problems with it at all. Recently I've tried to set up sendmail, only so I can test php or perl scripts that send emails! Sending to localhost works fine, but mail to an external address is returned by the remote domain because it couldn't verify my domain. Very sensible, I could be a spammer. So I edited rc.conf to say hostname="potato.real_domain.net" that is, I used the name of a real domain which is registered to me. The domain is hosted on the net, but AFAIK they don't have a machine called "potato". Now apache won't start and I get weird errors in other things, like shutting down X even! Can anyone help? Thanks very much, Ben
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