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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:09:17 CDT
From:      "Kent Vander Velden" <graphix@iastate.edu>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail - unqualified host name unknown? 
Message-ID:  <199806122309.SAA08068@isua1.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:36:44 PDT." <199806122236.PAA10541@pau-amma.whistle.com> 

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In message <199806122236.PAA10541@pau-amma.whistle.com>, David Wolfskill writes:
>>Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:44:07 CDT
>>From: "Kent Vander Velden" <graphix@iastate.edu>
>
>>  I get lots of these messages in /var/log/messages:
>
>>Jun 12 10:53:15 pseudo sendmail[1829]: My unqualified host name (pseudo)
>>unknown; sleeping for retry
>>Jun 12 10:54:15 pseudo sendmail[1829]: unable to qualify my own domain
>>name (pseudo) -- using short name
>
>That means you need to point /etc/resolv.conf at a working nameserver.

  My name server is a cache only name server.  There are two machine on
the local network.  I put their names and ips in /etc/hosts and modified
/etc/host.conf to refer to /etc/hosts before the nameserver.  I do not
see why it has a problem resolving the hostname unless it is not looking
in /etc/hosts.  Also, if the hostname is set to "pseudo." then sendmail
does not report this message.

  Can the cache of the name server be augmented to include the local
hostnames?

  Thanks.

---
Kent Vander Velden
kent@iastate.edu

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