Re: netenv and a fqdn

[Amir Marrei <marrei.a@gmx.ch>]

Hi

I had a problem with exim on my brothers server. I used the IP's mail-server 
as a relay, but even though the logs said that the messages were accepted, 
they never arrived. If I tried sending directly, the recipients server 
complained about unknown domain-something.
I now switched to sendmail, which has an ip-up-script which reconfigures the 
sendmail configuration and re-loads it when dialing up, maybe that will help 
you.

Amir


On Saturday 26 May 2001 10:48, hvdm@debian.org wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:05:53PM -0400, Dr. Jon R. Fox wrote:
> > A lot of my mail gets bounced back with since my machine doesn't have a
> > fqdn (mail looks like its from rsifox@ . Netenv has a DOMAIN= setting,
> > but this doesn't seem to affect
> > # hostname --fqdn
> > rsifox
> >
> > how do I get it to represent my fully qualified domain name at work?
>
> Hmm, unsure about netenv's fqdn features... however, I think the fqdn
> simply comes from your /etc/hosts. The first name on the relevant line
> for your machine becomes your fqdn...
>
> # cat /etc/hostname
> baboon
> # hostname --fqdn
> baboon.wilgenhof.sun.ac.za
> # grep baboon /etc/hosts
> 146.232.176.87  baboon.wilgenhof.sun.ac.za      baboon
>
> If I edit /etc/hosts and swap the two, hostname --fqdn returns "baboon",
> instead of baboon.wilgenhof.sun.ac.za... So you need to either
> directly edit /etc/hosts, or figure out how it is set up if it isn't
> "static".
>
> Hugo van der Merwe

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