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Re: hostname questions



This one time, at band camp, Michael Heironimus said:
> 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-...
> 
> -- 
> Michael Heironimus
Hmm . . . Ok, well I changed it to be all on one line, like you have it
shown, rather than spread over several.  It now displays $USER@mercury,
but now so does sqwebmail, sadly.  Not sure what to do about that.
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