On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:08 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > ? What is "this?" 59.101.171.96 > > from /var/log/messages. > > If you're starting up sendmail on your laptop (or any other computer > on > your LAN), those name servers aren't going to help your sendmail > match > up IP addresses it can see on your computer and their host names. > That > has to be organised on your own LAN; I generally set up bind as that > scales well and I can add more computers, temporarily or permanently > without any fuss such as fiddling with hosts files. > Thanks John, With the few computers I look after (and my place on the learning curve), I thought keeping it simple and just using entries in /etc/hosts for each was the way to start. So sendmail needs more , than that? When all is set up as needed for family and business then bind would be needed (along with LDAP, IMAP and web servers) but I have not started reading on any of them yet. This is why I like this list, a good cross-section of Fedora implementations and platforms, with users ranging fom novice (me) to well seasoned and experienced. -- Regards Simon
