Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:56:14PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Chris G wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:28:16PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Chris G wrote:
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
Try adding 127.0.0.1 as home.isbd.net in the hosts file.
There's a big comment in /etc/hosts saying that breaks things.
He said "add," not "change" or "replace." It shouldn't take long to see
what it breaks, if anything.
The comment says:-
# By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@xxxxxxxxxxx> says that 127.0.0.1
# should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems
# for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)
#
Chris,
Have a look at
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch21_:_Configuring_Linux_Mail_Servers
Note the 127.0.0.1 line they use. It is about one quarter of the way
down the page.
Doing this and removing your 192.168.1.1 line in hosts is a way to "tell
sendmail that home.isbd.net is localhost".
Depending on your configuration, you may be able to get away with only
removing the 192.168.1.1 line in /etc/hosts. The Machine will know its
name is associated with 192.168.1.1 from
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth*.
Pete
