Re: hosts, resolv setup?
On Wed 21 Feb 2001, stefan@alfredsson.org wrote:
>
> I remember some problems I had with sendmail, when I used dialup. It
> would hang the bootup 60 seconds, while trying to resolve its own
> hostname. It turned out that I needed to append a '.' to my hostnames in
> the hostfile. Seeing that the names from tcpdump are asked for with a
> dot at the end (indicating the final "top domain"?), it might be worth
> trying to add a dot to your names?
Or add "." as first entry in the "search" line of /etc/resolv.conf .
Paul Slootman
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home: paul@wurtel.net http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/
work: paul@murphy.nl http://www.murphy.nl/
debian: paul@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
isdn4linux: paul@isdn4linux.org http://www.isdn4linux.org/
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