Roundcube creates new user with host FQDN instead of localhost

2018-03-29 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Debian Stretch, roundcube 1.2.3+dfsg.1-4+deb9u1 Roundcube has created new user_id, with mail_host as FQDN and not localhost as previously. last_login with user where mail_host is localhost was 21. March, today login is mail_host FQDN. Can I fix this in the database so address books etc of

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:38 AM John T. Haggerty > wrote: > >> Any thoughts for or against Amazon? >> >> > Please don't top post on this list, it breaks up the flow of the thread > for people who read the thread after it's finished. The

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:38 AM John T. Haggerty wrote: > Any thoughts for or against Amazon? > > Please don't top post on this list, it breaks up the flow of the thread for people who read the thread after it's finished. The primary purpose of the list is to get your questions answered, but the

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
gt;I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem > >to > >differ): > > > >1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. > > > >2. Postfix gets installed. > > > >3. "Internet site " is enabled

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread John T. Haggerty
I have been able to create websites, and am able to use the fqdn to show up my web page I have hosed on the server. I just have to have ddclient update the ip address with the dns settings. I just have the box NATed behind the router. On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:47 PM, emetib wrote: > On Thurs

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread emetib
; 3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added. > > 4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it magically "times > out" when contacting the servers (even though telnetting to mine and Gmail's > works fine at port 25) > > 5. In theory thus shou

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread メット
; >2. Postfix gets installed. > >3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added. > >4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it magically >"times >out" when contacting the servers (even though telnetting to mine and >Gmail's works fine at p

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 August 2016 19:39:18 John T. Haggerty wrote: > If it's only Gmail, why van I telnet to their port and get their mail > server? > > Seems counterintuitive. Were you expecting Gmail to be either intuitive or logical?? :-o Lisi

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
John T. Haggerty: > > I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to > differ): > > 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. Please use example.com when you do not want to disclose your real domain name. The domain whatever.org does not be

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-25 Thread John T. Haggerty
ggerty wrote: > >> I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem >> to differ): >> >> 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. >> >> 2. Postfix gets installed. >> >> 3. "Internet site &

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 at 18:16, John T. Haggerty wrote: > I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to > differ): > > 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. > > 2. Postfix gets installed. > > 3. "Internet

Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

2016-08-25 Thread John T. Haggerty
I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to differ): 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. 2. Postfix gets installed. 3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added. 4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it

Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 12:32:33 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 May 2016 at 20:38:41 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > For Exim and minimaldns the question is > > > > Does the hostname resolve to a fqdn (something with a dot in it)? > > > > 12

Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
onfigure exim4-config either stop saying > > > > "hostname --fqdn did not return a fully qualified name, dc_minimaldns > > > > will not > > > > work. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup." or suggest a reasonable fix? > > > > Or IOW, why has bu

Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 10:08:49 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 May 2016 at 11:33:10 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Wed 11 May 2016 at 14:51:31 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > BTW when will dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config either stop saying > > &g

Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-12 Thread David Wright
a warning about the terminating newline while their script is broken. (crontab suffers from the same problem. A correct way to write such a script is demonstrated by /etc/init.d/kmod's reading of /etc/modules. I always add a blank comment line to my configuration files anyway.) > > BTW

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-07 Thread Joe
he HELO. > > I doubt this has anything to do with BT. MTA's will generally provide > the FQDN as the HELO name (as described in the corresponding RFC), and > if the FQDN has been chosen to end with .local then you'll get that in > the HELO. My point was that the default is

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ange Server refuse mail from a BT server for this connection, the "BT server" is actually the client. > because the latter identified itself with .local as tld in the HELO. > BT knows nothing about email. I doubt this has anything to do with BT. MTA's will generally provide

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
t had no dots it appended $mydomain forming names such as foo.localdomain when the configured hostname was a short name (the general Debian recommendation) rather than a FQDN. That would match the names used in /etc/hosts and everything would work. For a system defaulting to localhost: root

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-04 Thread Joe
a DNS server, or provides some service across the Internet, that 'domain' and 'FQDN' become meaningful. Even in the latter case, 'domain' applies only to the external interface and to any network machines carrying public IP addresses, and means nothing to machines behi

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > > I'm one of the many who use .home > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-homenet-dot-home-00 > and this paper points out that there's an awful lot of leakage onto > the Internet. > > I think I/we ought to be using .local > http://tools.ie

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-03 Thread David Wright
already the fine Debian Reference > > maintained by Osamu Aoki. All it takes is time and that seems in less > > supply every day. I agree. I think I may have stumbled on the same or a similar discussion regarding 127.0.1.1 foo and I tried making changes accordingly. The result of one

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 14:29:49 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > The debian-installer will set things up right with an entry such as > > > this one. > > > > > > 127.0.1.1 foo.example.com foo > > > > If 'Domain name' is blank you get '127.0.1.1 foo'. > > Ah, y

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The debian-installer will set things up right with an entry such as > > this one. > > > > 127.0.1.1 foo.example.com foo > > If 'Domain name' is blank you get '127.0.1.1 foo'. Ah, yes, I had left that out. We had discussed that point in a previous email. H

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-03 Thread Brian
irst, goes > > > to /etc/hosts second, and if it encounters FQDN hostname - it all ends > > > here. > > > If /etc/hosts contain only bare hostname - it'd return a bare hostname. > > But /etc/hosts shouldn't have a bare hostname, right? It should >

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> and as far as I see it simply asks the DNS about the hostname using > >> getaddrinfo. > > > > But, with stock nsswitch.conf, it issues uname(2) syscall first, goes > > to /etc/hosts second, and if it encounters FQDN hostname - it

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-02 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
>> and as far as I see it simply asks the DNS about the hostname using >> getaddrinfo. > > But, with stock nsswitch.conf, it issues uname(2) syscall first, goes > to /etc/hosts second, and if it encounters FQDN hostname - it all ends > here. > If /etc/hosts contai

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-02 Thread Reco
ch.conf, it issues uname(2) syscall first, goes to /etc/hosts second, and if it encounters FQDN hostname - it all ends here. If /etc/hosts contain only bare hostname - it'd return a bare hostname. Only if /etc/hosts does not contain a hostname - a DNS search will be performed (or other resolvin

Re: Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-02 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 04/02/2015 02:10 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi al, WHen issuing 'hostname --fqdn', I'm supposed to get the FQDN. Anyway when trying some different combinations, involving /etc/hostname, /etc/domainname, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, I cannot figure out where the FQ

Debian and FQDN lookup

2015-04-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi al, WHen issuing 'hostname --fqdn', I'm supposed to get the FQDN. Anyway when trying some different combinations, involving /etc/hostname, /etc/domainname, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, I cannot figure out where the FQDN is looked up AND with what precedence. Would you kno

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Klaus Doering
Thanks All, I fully accept that exim is as it is, and being an (instrumentation-)developer myself it's easy to see how we got here. As stated in my very first post, I did make it all work by using "proper" ;-) entries in /etc/hosts, hostname and mailname. This being my first email server instal

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2013 3:45 AM, Klaus Doering wrote: > Stan, > > Thank you for taking the time to explain your perspective. Maybe it is > the tone of your teachings that tickle me, maybe it's just that I'm no > big fan of sweeping statements a la "Don't do it, ever". As I described Many folks with long ex

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Arun Khan
y the DHCP server. In "dnsmasq" this > would be the "domain=" option. And it is this option that is not > acknowledged by exim. > Whether a server sits on the WAN or an internal LAN (with no visibility on the WAN), the principles of configuration are the same. Instead

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 mai 13, 13:51:01, Klaus Doering wrote: > > This email server is not directly connected to the 'net, it sits behind > a router. Thus, there is one external IP for which I've registered an "A" > record and an "MX" record on a public DNS server, and then there is an > internal IP server on

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Klaus Doering
On 19/05/13 12:48, Arun Khan wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Klaus Doering wrote: I agree that in a different setting, where there are many users, hundreds of emails per minute and other mission-critical stuff is going on, one needs to design the infrastructure a lot more carefully.

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Klaus Doering wrote: > > I agree that in a different setting, where there are many users, > hundreds of emails per minute and other mission-critical stuff is going > on, one needs to design the infrastructure a lot more carefully. > As a thumb rule, any system pro

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-19 Thread Klaus Doering
Stan, Thank you for taking the time to explain your perspective. Maybe it is the tone of your teachings that tickle me, maybe it's just that I'm no big fan of sweeping statements a la "Don't do it, ever". As I described in my initial post, this thread concerns a small domestic setting. There is

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2013 2:17 PM, Klaus Doering wrote: > Stan, Thank you for the teaching. Indeed, there are many books I should > have read already, alas, there are a great many subjects about which > important books are written. So, I go along and learn when things don't > work as expected. Like now. > > Th

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-16 Thread Klaus Doering
Joe, Yes, I've set the "A" and the "MX" record to the same FQDN, and that is also the HELO string. (at least now that I adjusted the entry in the hosts file.) Thanks, Klaus On 16/05/13 19:06, Joe wrote: Apart from any other issue, please note that the HELO string pro

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-16 Thread Klaus Doering
Stan, Thank you for the teaching. Indeed, there are many books I should have read already, alas, there are a great many subjects about which important books are written. So, I go along and learn when things don't work as expected. Like now. The story about using DHCP to assign fixed addresses doe

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:02:57 +0100 Klaus Doering wrote: > > The RaspPi (running Raspbian, a version of Wheezy for the ARMHF > architecture) also acts as a mail server, talking > SMTP to the wider world using exim4. After I got an error message > from some strict server telling me > > 504 5.

Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2013 3:02 AM, Klaus Doering wrote: ... > Sorry long post. Can anybody shine light on this, and maybe even know > how to make use of the DHCP provided > domain name in exim? First, using a DHCP server, in a consumer broadband router or otherwise, to assign -sticky static- addresses and hos

FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4

2013-05-16 Thread Klaus Doering
cient to set the domain in /etc/mailname, instead /etc/hosts must contain the FQDN. Sorry long post. Can anybody shine light on this, and maybe even know how to make use of the DHCP provided domain name in exim? Thanks Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:50:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Yes, I can ping *but* I have the above machine listed in my >> "/etc/hosts" file. >> >> sm01@stt008:~$ cat /etc/hosts >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> 192.168.0.8 stt008.linux.site

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Kent West wrote: > > westk@westek:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > Changing the order of the hosts: line to: > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 > as you suggested above, s

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
nf|grep hosts > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > And let's see if I can ping a local machine using its FQDN: > > sm01@stt008:~$ ping -c 3 stt008.linux.site > PING stt008.linux.site (192.168.0.8) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from stt008.li

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Tom H wrote: > > Although you're using "acu.local" as a domain, I suspect that it has > the same problem as ".local" and clashes with avahi. Do you have any > "mdns" entries on the "hosts" line of "/etc/resolv.conf"? "/etc/nsswitch.conf" not "/etc/resolv.conf", so

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
em (so I put the /etc/default/avahi-daemon file back to the way it > was). > > I have a MacBook running an up-to-date OS/X, and it can ping both the > hostname and the FQDN (and it's resolv.conf file looks pretty much the same > as the above), so it seems to be a problem in

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-28 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:33:07 -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 07/27/2012 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I remember something related to the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" file, the >> order of the queried facilities and also the avahi issue with ".local" >> domains... (...) >> Just for testing purposes yo

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iul 12, 13:45:36, Kent West wrote: > > As mentioned in another post, changing the line in /etc/nsswitch.conf from: > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > to: > > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 > > seems to have solved

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Joe
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:45:36 -0500 Kent West wrote: > > The domain is a Windows Active Directory domain (if that's a sensible > description), and it used to be named ACU, but then we moved to a new > Active Directory setup, starting from scratch because the ACU AD > Domain had too many problem

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kent West
On 07/27/2012 12:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 27 iul 12, 09:45:02, Kent West wrote: Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name of a box? westk@westek:~$ ping k1000 PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 27.07.2012 21:33, Kent West wrote: > Changing the order of the hosts: line to: > > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 > > as you suggested above, seems to have solved the problem: > > ... > > Will this cause me any problems? I put it into this: hosts:

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kent West
;/etc/nsswitch.conf" file, the order of the queried facilities and also the avahi issue with ".local" domains... sm01@stt008:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf|grep hosts hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 And let's see if I can ping a local machine using its FQDN:

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iul 12, 09:45:02, Kent West wrote: > Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name > of a box? > > > westk@westek:~$ ping k1000 > PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=62 time=0.128 ms > ^C64 bytes

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Camaleón
he "/etc/nsswitch.conf" file, the order of the queried facilities and also the avahi issue with ".local" domains... sm01@stt008:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf|grep hosts hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 And let's see if I can ping a local machine u

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
>>> westk@westek:~$ nslookup k1000.acu.local >>> Server: 150.252.134.8 >>> Address:150.252.134.8#53 >>> >>> Name: k1000.acu.local >>> Address: 150.252.149.1 >>> >>> >>> I googled for this problem a

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kent West
-date OS/X, and it can ping both the hostname and the FQDN (and it's resolv.conf file looks pretty much the same as the above), so it seems to be a problem in this Debian box (westek). Odd. What does your routing table look like ("ip route" or "route")? I don't see

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kent West
/etc/default/avahi-daemon file (after which I did a "sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart" command), but that didn't solve the problem (so I put the /etc/default/avahi-daemon file back to the way it was). I have a MacBook running an up-to-date OS/X, and it can ping both the hostna

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
gt; >> >> I googled for this problem and found instructions to change 1 to 0 in the >> /etc/default/avahi-daemon file (after which I did a "sudo >> /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart" command), but that didn't solve the >> problem (so I put the /etc/default

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
t solve the > problem (so I put the /etc/default/avahi-daemon file back to the way it > was). > > I have a MacBook running an up-to-date OS/X, and it can ping both the > hostname and the FQDN (and it's resolv.conf file looks pretty much the same > as the above), so it seems to

Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Kent West
start" command), but that didn't solve the problem (so I put the /etc/default/avahi-daemon file back to the way it was). I have a MacBook running an up-to-date OS/X, and it can ping both the hostname and the FQDN (and it's resolv.conf file looks pretty much the same as the above),

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-29 Thread Stefan Schmidt
So both addresses are unambiguous. For what reason now would I need a FQDN? Why wouldn't a domain name suffice? Typically, I see it that a domain refers to an entity, whereas a FQDN refers to a host or service within that entity. For your purposes the following sdhould be suffi

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-10 Thread mouss
Chris Davies a écrit : > Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the >> FQDN of the host. > >> 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname > > Yes, that's right. > > >> I would for simplicit

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-06 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the > FQDN of the host. > > 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname > > I would for simplicity prefer to use a domai

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Stefan Schmidt wrote: > in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the > FQDN of the host. > 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname Yes, that's right. > I would for simplicity prefer to use a domain name instead of a FQDN. > 123.123.123.123

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-04 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Thanks for your feedback! So both addresses are unambiguous. For what reason now would I need a FQDN? Why wouldn't a domain name suffice? What happens when you want/need to add another machine ? I use the domain solely for private purposes and I will probably never need more than t

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello, Howdy in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the FQDN of the host. 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname Yes, that is the proper format and order I would for simplicity prefer to use a domain name

FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-04 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello, in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the FQDN of the host. 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname I would for simplicity prefer to use a domain name instead of a FQDN. 123.123.123.123 domain.tld hostname In my DNS-configuration I can define an

FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-04 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello, in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the FQDN of the host. 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname I would for simplicity prefer to use a domain name instead of a FQDN. 123.123.123.123 domain.tld hostname In my DNS-configuration I can define an IP

Re: hostname must tally with fqdn in /etc/hosts?

2008-11-25 Thread s. keeling
Umarzuki Mochlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Why that must be, I mean when changing the hostname with hostname > command, we also sometimes need to do the same with /etc/hosts else > something weird would happen. Does the command hostname writes > somewhere else other than /etc/hosts? man hostna

Re: hostname must tally with fqdn in /etc/hosts?

2008-11-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
) A running instance of Debian only has one of these at a time. The kernel's hostname string is a very local identifier. The FQDN is a more complicated beast, dependent on your NSS settings and the resources they point to, and a single running Debian instance might have many of them. Th

Re: hostname must tally with fqdn in /etc/hosts?

2008-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.Nov.08, 20:29:22, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Why that must be, I mean when changing the hostname with hostname command, > we also sometimes need to do the same with /etc/hosts else something weird > would happen. Does the command hostname writes somewhere else other than > /etc/hosts? Acc

hostname must tally with fqdn in /etc/hosts?

2008-11-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Why that must be, I mean when changing the hostname with hostname command, we also sometimes need to do the same with /etc/hosts else something weird would happen. Does the command hostname writes somewhere else other than /etc/hosts? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

FQDN vs. domain name

2008-07-11 Thread Stefan Schmidt
# /etc/mailname lvps123-123-123-123.dedicated.hosteurope.de First of all I think the /etc/hostname shouldn't contain the FQDN, but instead the hostname, in this case lvps123-123-123-123. I would like to replace all these values with my own domain name (mydomain.com), but I'm not sure i

Re: chroot testing of apache installation with multiple fqdn

2007-11-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:50:21AM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > Is there a way to set up my chroot environment (or perhaps it is an > apache issue) that allows me the freedom to move the machine from one I'm not even sure I really understand the question. Apache doesn't care all that much about y

chroot testing of apache installation with multiple fqdn

2007-11-02 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I am testing out the installation of some software that involves specifying hostname information for the install. I have set up a minimal chroot environment and downloaded all of the debian packages and the other software that is needed to build it. I am using this on my laptop that is

Re: Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
would then possibly have more than one FQDN. > > "The host name is usually set once at system startup in > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading the > contents of a file which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname)" > > Those first 2 files

Re: Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Can anyone who /knows/ tell me what the proper officially correct ways of setting the hostname and the FQDN are, please? Thanks, JW -- in /etc/hostname : myhostname in /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.120 myhostname.mydomain.com myhostname set

Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I have been trying to find out the exact and proper way to set the host and domain name on Debian and it's clear as mud. Searching the internet gives all sorts of conflicting answers. First, I thought the way to do it was to put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. Then I ended up

Re: Resolving .local domain FQDN on client [SOLVED]

2007-03-22 Thread Richard Harb (debian)
On Thursday 22 March 2007 17:14, I wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'. > When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian > etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.loca

Re: Resolving .local domain FQDN on client

2007-03-22 Thread Bernard
ECTED]> wrote: Hello list, I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'. When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.local/) it does not resolve / ask the DNS server for the

Re: Resolving .local domain FQDN on client

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Richard Harb (debian) wrote: Hello list, I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'. When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.local/) it does n

Resolving .local domain FQDN on client

2007-03-22 Thread Richard Harb (debian)
Hello list, I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'. When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.local/) it does not resolve / ask the DNS server for the address. wi

Re: FQDN

2006-10-25 Thread George Borisov
Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Hi, I have not yet adjusted /etc/hosts ? Do I need to do this? What is > its purpose and why cant it bypass this to use resolv.conf? You need to edit the /etc/hosts file to set the name and domain for 127.0.0.1. You can not get these from a DNS server and this is the inf

Re: FQDN

2006-10-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Critchlow wrote: Hi, I have not yet adjusted /etc/hosts ? Do I need to do this? What is its purpose and why cant it bypass this to use resolv.conf? I have tried restarting etc many thanks Andrew, I've not followed the discussion up to this point. I apologize if this does

RE: FQDN

2006-10-20 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Hi, I have not yet adjusted /etc/hosts ? Do I need to do this? What is its purpose and why cant it bypass this to use resolv.conf?       I have tried restarting etc         many thanks

RE: FQDN name

2006-10-20 Thread David Christensen
Andrew Critchlow wrote: > I am trying to set the FQDN domain of my debian box, I have read that > to set the dns name in resolv.conf use: ... > It still shows up as: localdomain Have you also adjusted /etc/hostname and/or /etc/hosts? Have you tried restarting networking and/or rebooti

FQDN name

2006-10-20 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Can anyone help, I am in desperate need of help!   I am trying to set the FQDN domain of my debian box, I have read that to set the dns name in resolv.conf use: domain domain.com I have tried this but when I issue #hostname --fqdn It shows up as: localhost.localdomain or #dnsdomainname It still

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-25 Thread David Koski
To get hostname to work for myhost.example.com do this: * Make sure /etc/hostname has myhost. * Put this line in /etc/hosts: 1.2.3.4 myhost.example.com myhost David On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:01 pm, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > Hello. > How do I change the fqdn of a co

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:47, Ken Bloom wrote: > >>Steve Witt wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: >>> >>>>Hello. >>>>How do I change the fqdn of a c

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:47, Ken Bloom wrote: >Steve Witt wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: >>> Hello. >>> How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? >>> No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling >>>

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Witt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > >> Hello. >> How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? >> No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling >> "localhost.localdomain", other >> computers with

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Witt
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling "localhost.localdomain", other computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. Thank you. -- The hostn

Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling "localhost.localdomain", other computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. Thank you. -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández pgpib1CDLZJ6J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fqdn no more

2005-10-17 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After I finished configuring apache2, I run /etc/init.d/apache2 restart and I got the following: "Forcing reload of webserver: Apache2 apache2: could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" I have my webserver's ip

fqdn no more

2005-10-17 Thread nano
Hi all, After I finished configuring apache2, I run /etc/init.d/apache2 restart and I got the following: "Forcing reload of webserver: Apache2 apache2: could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" I have my webserver's ip address and domain name in

change of hostname and fqdn

2004-11-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What configuration files need to be changed when performing a change of hostname and fqdn in a basically setup debian box? Problem: I am planning to get a debian dedicated hosting service, they make a basic woody installation, but probably they will call it debian following the default name. For

Postfix needs an FQDN?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I have configured postfix with smarthost. When I send an email, it goes to nowhere. Using the mail command I checked that postfix gives a warning that the domain name is not set. If I set it, I get the following warning: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

Address rewriting and FQDN

2002-11-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
For the moment, /etc/mailname is set to "ay" on my machine. But the message-id generated by the "bug" utility doesn't have a FQDN. I tried to set it to "ay.vinc17.org", but address rewriting doesn't work any longer (vinc17.org is a domain I own, but ay.vinc

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