Re: Host's IP address can't be found
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 15:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 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.
>
# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:B4:D5:A8
inet addr:192.168.111.2 Bcast:192.168.111.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:c9ff:feb4:d5a8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:13510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:18629272 (17.7 MiB) TX bytes:601099 (587.0 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1766 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1766 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:622964 (608.3 KiB) TX bytes:622964 (608.3 KiB)
Thanks for the help,
Haines
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