From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 03:27:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27081 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 03:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA27015 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 03:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) From: malte@webmore.com Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.188]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:28:49 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03761; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:23:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199806121744.MAA03990@isua2.iastate.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:23:08 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com To: kent@iastate.edu Subject: RE: sendmail - unqualified host name unknown? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Seems you set hostname to "pseudo" in /etc/rc.conf (?) If yes, you will need something like this in /etc/hosts: 1.2.3.4 pseudo. Notice the "." at the end Malte. On 12-Jun-98 Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > 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 > > This delays deliverly of local mail ~ 2 minutes and creates a lengthy > pause on startup. What can I do to disable this? > > Here is more information: > > fft|Fri12:43pm} hostname > pseudo > fft|Fri12:43pm} domainname > > fft|Fri12:43pm} nslookup pseudo > *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.2: Non-existent > host/domain > *** Default servers are not available > fft|Fri12:43pm} grep pseudo /etc/hosts > 10.0.0.3 pseudo > > Thanks! > > --- > Kent Vander Velden > kent@iastate.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: malte@webmore.com Date: 13-Jun-98 Time: 12:18:03 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message