On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:11:25 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote > Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Knute Johnson wrote: > >> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> Knute Johnson wrote: > >>>> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > >>>>> Knute Johnson wrote: > >>>>>> If I set my computer to localhost.localdomain then I can relay > >>>>>> mail just fine. What do you do if you don't have a fixed IP? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>> > >>>>> hang on....frazmtn.com links to Frazier Mountain Internet Service > >>>>> is this you or your ISP? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> frazmtn.com is my ISP. I have a couple if fixed IPs, one of which is > >>>> hosted as sagebrush.frazmtn.com. > >>>> > >>> have you thought of having an internal dns setup? For the relaying to > >>> work you'd need to have a dns record for the workstation and at the > >>> moment this machine is not 'resolvable'. > >>> Why don't you just give a hostname that is not a fqdn if you don't run a > >>> DNS server? > >>> > >>> - -- > >>> (o< Thierry Sayegh De Bellis, RHCE > >> OK, so if I just set the hostname to 'knute' then what do I want in my > >> hosts file, /etc/hosts file and in my /etc/sysconfig/network files? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > > assuming the machine has a static IP (on your LAN) > > /etc/hosts looks like > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > <your IP> knute > > > > > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > NETWORKING=yes > > HOSTNAME=knute > > > > hth > > > > - -- > > (o< Thierry Sayegh De Bellis, RHCE > > So now sendmail hangs on startup for about 2 minutes. There must be > something else to set? > > Thanks, > > knute... > > [knute@knute ~]$ hostname > knute > > [knute@knute ~]$ cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.3.5 knute > > [knute@knute ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > NETWORKING_IPV6=yes > HOSTNAME=knute > [knute@knute ~]$ > > -- > > Knute Johnson > Also change the "::1' to "127.0.0.1", I've read that usually fixes that problem.. Although I could be wrong.. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
