On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:46:24PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> Either set up a DNS server for your local network
> or add some entries to /etc/hosts. sendmail likes
> to be able to resolve its IP address into an FQDN
> and will bitch if it can't.
Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this supposed to be
working? I mean, if I have /etc/hosts like:
192.168.1.1 host.local.domain host
ip lookup works:
$ host 192.168.1.1
Name: host.local.domain
Address: 192.168.1.1
Aliases: host
but name lookup fails
$ host host.local.domain
host.local.domain does not exist (Authoritative answer)
Is this how it should be? Or have I a misconfigured system?
--
groetjes, carel
