Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:43:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set qualified domain for mail/sendmail? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101051641290.23652-100000@www.bellnetworks.net> In-Reply-To: <3A563D38.D17260B4@mail.iowna.com>
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > Yes, it'll be obvious shortly. > sendmail is checking the DNS to verify your hostname. Your IP resolves > to ci490846-b.lxintn1.ky.home.com according to @HOME's DNS servers. > You could probably solve this by setting up a /etc/hosts file with the > name you want to use. I'm not sure if sendmail checks the DNS or hosts > file first, though, so you may have to do something more than that. > Possibly setting up a local DNS server on your machine, or reconfiguring > sendmail not to attempt to resolve IP addresses into DNS names. If you > do the last one, be careful that spammers can't abuse you! > Here is a snippet from my /etc/hosts file jfreeze@eeyore1 -> cat /etc/hosts | grep eeyore1 24.9.218.175 eeyore1 CI590846-B lxintn1.ky.home.com ==================================================== Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------- ** http://www.freeze.org ** ==================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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