Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:49:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and hostname Message-ID: <46133C6B.5020208@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200704032347.04141.fkraiem@free.fr> References: <200704032347.04141.fkraiem@free.fr>
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Firas Kraiem wrote:
> Greetings
>=20
> I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver :
>=20
> Apr 3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice=
)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
>=20
> From what I've understood after a bit of searching, the answer lies pro=
bably=20
> in the /etc/hosts file. So here goes :
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> 127.0.0.1 localhost alice
> 192.168.1.2 alice
> 192.168.1.3 bob
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> Any help would be much appreciated.
sendmail is trying to work out your fully qualified domain name. In
short, it wants a name with dots in. You can just invent a name --
alice.local for example -- and your own sendmail will be happy, but
ones it connects to for mail delivery may be less so. That may or may
not be a problem depending on your local setup. Or else you can get
a name properly registered in the DNS and use that instead.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
Kent, CT11 9PW
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