On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:14:23PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > 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. :^) >> # > > It's broken _now_ Chris. > > fwiw here's mine, where's that comment? > > [root@potoroo mail]# cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 Yes, and *yours* doesn't have anything other than localhost in it either does it! :-) -- Chris Green
