[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

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
-- 
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/



Reply to: