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	Re: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:34:37 -0800 (PST), Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > how do you fix this ?
> >
> > Feb  2 12:09:22 I sm-mta[699]: My unqualified host name (localhost)
> > unknown; sle eping for retry
> 
> Make sure the host's names (including localhost) are defined in
> /etc/hosts, and that /etc/hosts is being used in name resolution
> (on 5.3 that would be configuration via nsswitch.conf(5)).
> 

thx it works now :)