Re: hostname questions

[Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net>]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I have a box, mercury, that handles all the mail for my domain.  Doing a
> DNS lookup on it gives the name mail.lobefin.net.  /etc/hosts looks like
> this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost                                   mercury
> 216.158.52.98   mail.lobefin.net                            mercury
> 216.158.52.98   adsl-216-158-52-98-cust.oldcity.dca.net     mercury

This looks wrong. Try using something like this instead:

127.0.0.1       localhost
216.158.52.98   mercury.lobefin.net mercury mail.lobefin.net adsl-...

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Michael Heironimus