Re: smail confusion
> I've had the same problem. I sent mail to debian-user about a week ago, an
> no one but Ian (Jackson?) gave me any response. It wasn't too useful. I've
I assume that you do have a nameserver running?
> Try deleting this file. I've found that without /etc/smail/routers, smail
> can correctly get the addresses of the hosts. I don't know enough about
Well, I'm not too into blindly deleting files. :)
> I've been thinking of sending this in as a bug. If anyone has any clues
> about this problem, I'm sure we'd both be grateful.
Yup. Now in the smail(5) manpage, it says that "defnames" does what I
need. Since it is a boolean, you don't give it an argument, and I
assume it simply looks up it's own domain -- and hostname -d shows the
right thing. Since the attribute is in there (put in automagically by
Ian's script) I am at a loss.
defnames
type: boolean
This boolean attribute is passed to the BIND
resolve routines as the RES_DEFNAMES flag. If set,
then hostnames which do not contain dots will have
a default domain appended to them before lookups.
For example, this allows for hosts on a local area
network to be referenced using the basename of the
host rather than requiring the full domain name.
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