On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:35:50PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 4:49 PM +0000 11/10/07, Chris G wrote:
> >I have a fairly default Fedora 7 installation, certainly the sendmail
> >is just as it was installed.
> >
> >How do I get sendmail to deliver mail to local destinations? The
> >system's hostname is home.isbd.net and it's connected to the Internet
> >via a router. I have a CNAME set up at the hosting provider that
> >hosts isbd.net to point at the static address of my ADSL connection.
> >
> >When I send mail from my system to a local address it gets the
> >hostname added, thus mail gets sent to root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> >postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, etc. All of this
> >fails because sendmail attempts to connect to the SMTP port of
> >home.isbd.net, which isn't possible because my router's firewall
> >doesn't accept connections on port 25.
> >
> >I don't want to open up port 25 and it seems a bit silly anyway to
> >send mail on such a long round trip. Is there any way I can tell
> >sendmail that home.isbd.net is localhost (or 192.168.1.1)? I have an
> >entry for home.isbd.net in my /etc/hosts file which is:-
> >
> > 192.168.1.1 home home.isbd.net
> >
> >but obviously sendmail is doing a DNS lookup for home.isbd.net which
> >returns the 'external' IP address.
>
> You didn't show your entire /etc/hosts file. Does it start with:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> with the 192.x.x.x line after it?
Yes. :-
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.1.1 home.isbd.net home
192.168.1.5 garage
192.168.1.10 chris
192.168.1.40 netpr
192.168.1.44 hp7310 HPEDDBB7 HP000D9D068F7D
192.168.1.254 speedtouch
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Chris Green
