At 9:50 AM +0000 11/12/07, Chris G wrote: >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 That looks OK. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
