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Re: Host's IP address can't be found



Not trimming on purpose, see below:

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote:
> I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation which is the sole host on 
> a local network and has Internet access through a hardware firewall. 
> 
> I have a MB ethernet chip, but am using a NIC card. Before the card was
> eth0, but with installation of Etch on a new disk, it apparently changed
> to eth1.
> 
> I can't mail out with rmail or Wanderlust because the host's IP address
> can't be found:
> 
> In exim4/mainlog when I use rmail:
> 
>   2007-04-28 06:55:20 1HhkaF-0000qy-WE <= brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com
>         U=brownh P=local S=448
>   2007-04-28 06:55:20 1HhkaF-0000qy-WE no IP address found for host
>         brownh@hartford-hwp.com
>   2007-04-28 06:55:20 1HhkaF-0000qy-WE == brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com
>         R=smarthost defer (-1): lookup of host "brownh@hartford-hwp.com"
>         failed in smarthost router
> 
> /etc/hosts:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 192.168.1.1     teufel.localdomain teufel
> 
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> 
> $ host hartford-hwp.com
> hartford-hwp.com has address 64.227.154.66
> hartford-hwp.com mail is handled by 5 inbound.registeredsite.com.
> 
> $ netstat -rn teufel
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination    Gateway        Genmask        Flags  MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 192.168.111.0  0.0.0.0        255.255.255.0  U       0 0          0 eth1
> 0.0.0.0        192.168.111.1  0.0.0.0        UG      0 0          0 eth1
> 
> In /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth1
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>         address 192.168.1.1
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         network 192.168.1.0
>         broadcast 192.168.1.255
> 
> In /etc/nsswitch.conf, I have:
> 
>   ...
>   hosts:          files dns
>   networks:       files

What does ifconfig show?
Tack the output here and don't trim so we see everything on one page.

Doug.



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