[101855] in RedHat Linux List
Re: mail question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H Darrah)
Mon Nov 30 00:02:56 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:02:47 -0800 (PST)
From: John H Darrah <jhd@giddens.com>
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On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Kent R. Frazier wrote:
>
> I tried this and I get the same error. My IP is
> the same as the default localhost. (120.0.0.1)
> My /etc/hosts file was:
>
> 120.0.0.1 amethyst amethyst.frazier.home
>
> so I changed it to look like your example but
> with the same IP.
>
You might try just the following:
120.0.0.1 amethyst
The problem is sendmail is not recognizing the
address as local and is trying to a DNS lookup on
it, and it fails because you don't have a real
domain name.
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