On 15/11/2016 15:45, Brian wrote:
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 15:02:54 +, Joe wrote:
That's fairly common, the exim4 default if enabled is to check that the HELO
is resolvable at all, not that it matches anything specific. It's a few
years since I last did it, but when I used telnet to talk to
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 10:10:17 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:59:14PM +, Brian wrote:
> > On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 09:18:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Second choice:
> > > System mail name:
> > > eeg.ccf.org
>
> > > Eighth choice:
> > > Keep number of DNS-
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 15:02:54 +, Joe wrote:
> On 15/11/2016 14:10, Brian wrote:
> >Exim wants to see a fqdn in the 127.0.1.1 line, written as specified in
> >hosts(5):
> >
> > IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]
> >
> >The canonical_hostname is used for the HELO/EHLO.
>
> Default, ca
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 10:10:17 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:59:14PM +, Brian wrote:
> > On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 09:18:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Second choice:
> > > System mail name:
> > > eeg.ccf.org
>
> > > Eighth choice:
> > > Keep number of DNS-q
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:59:14PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 09:18:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Second choice:
> > System mail name:
> > eeg.ccf.org
> > Eighth choice:
> > Keep number of DNS-queries minimal?
> > No
>
> You didn't use "yes"?
Of course not. Why wou
On 15/11/2016 14:10, Brian wrote:
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 08:00:31 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:29:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
As your own hostname -f produces not dots, what approach do you
use to shut exim up, or do you just ignore (or suppress) the message?
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 09:18:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:10:14PM +, Brian wrote:
> > With 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' the message
> >
> > "Starting MTA:hostname --fqdn did not return a fully qualified name,
> > dc_minimaldns will not work. Please fix your
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:10:14PM +, Brian wrote:
> With 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' the message
>
> "Starting MTA:hostname --fqdn did not return a fully qualified name,
> dc_minimaldns will not work. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup."
>
> should appear if "yes" is chosen for the optio
On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 08:00:31 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:29:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > As your own hostname -f produces not dots, what approach do you
> > use to shut exim up, or do you just ignore (or suppress) the message?
>
> I have (control over) a
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:29:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> As your own hostname -f produces not dots, what approach do you
> use to shut exim up, or do you just ignore (or suppress) the message?
I have (control over) a bunch of computers, and they're not all configured
the same. The mach
On Mon 14 Nov 2016 at 08:27:06 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> [...] So when you do your "hostname -f"
> (which I still contend is a rubbish command which serves no useful
> purpose, but it's what you seem to want, so I'll roll with it), it
> looks up "srv" in thi
> On Nov 14, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:50:46AM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
>>> On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:25 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
>>> I am 95% confident that the reason that Glenn's system thinks the
>>> FQDN is "www.slsware.dmz" is because the first inst
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:50:46AM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> > On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:25 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I am 95% confident that the reason that Glenn's system thinks the
> > FQDN is "www.slsware.dmz" is because the first instance of "srv" in
> > the /etc/hosts is:
> >
> >>> 192.168.
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> wrote:
>
> But the whole thing really doesn't need any DNS servers *as long as*
> everything you need is resolved statically by some module in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf... such as the default "files" module, which reads
> /etc/hosts.
> r
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 11:17 AM, sunr...@mailbug.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi Glenn,
>
>
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:50:46 -0700
> Glenn English wrote:
>
> ...
>>> 216.17.203.65 out.slsware.org oso
>>> 216.17.203.66 srv.slsware.org sso
>
> This might be your problem??
Hi Glenn,
On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:50:46 -0700
Glenn English wrote:
...
>
>It never occurred to me that something might be looking at aliases; I thought
>the IP
>address was the important thing. And the srv...dmz entry is commented out
>because I
>thought it might somehow be used.
>
>I'll rem
On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Glenn English wrote:
> Thanks all. It's been quite a ride. Now everybody write it down: it
> has nothing to do with what's in /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf. There
> has to be a live, accessible DNS server for the domain somewhere. At
> least at slsware.org there does.
Maybe f
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> wrote:
>
> hostname -f does this:
>
> 1. Asks glibc for the hostname, using gethostname().
>
> 2. Does an IP lookup on the hostname, using getaddrinfo() and the
> hostname it got from gethostname(), and returns the result from
>
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:25 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> The system thinks Glenn's domain name is "slsware.dmz". Glenn wants it
> to be "slsware.org" (I think).
Correct.
> Glenn has set the host name to be "srv".
Correct.
> I am 95% confident that the reason that Glenn's system thinks the
> FQDN
On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Glenn English wrote:
> /proc/sys/domainname says "(none)". hostname -f gives the old domain
/proc/sys/domainname is the kernel's idea of a domain name, which is
only used by some network filesystems (kernel-based NFS, I think),
AFAIK.
Nothing else needs it. And if you set up
On Sat 12 Nov 2016 at 10:25:16 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Glenn has set the host name to be "srv".
>
> I am 95% confident that the reason that Glenn's system thinks the
> FQDN is "www.slsware.dmz" is because the first instance of "srv" in
> the /etc/hosts is:
>
> > > 192.168.2.203 www.slswar
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 02:00:11AM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> (Resend. Accidentally sent to a human instead of to the list...)
I responded off-list to Glenn since that one arrived first and I
wasn't sure if Glenn intended the contents of their /etc/hosts to be
private. Later I saw this cop
(Resend. Accidentally sent to a human instead of to the list...)
> On Nov 11, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> Okay. So I think we should focus on why "hostname -f" returns the
> wrong/outdated info. I'm not sure yet.
>
> Out of interest what does "hostname -d" return?
slsware.dmz
(W
Hi Glenn,
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:13:02PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > After you have done that, what command are you using which shows you
> > the old/incorrect values?
>
> Mostly hostname - f. That's what I've used in a number if shell
>
> On Nov 11, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> I normally put the short name in /etc/hostname and then the:
>
>
>
> in /etc/hosts. That works for me both for setting initial host name
> and FQDN, and for changing it later.
Yeah, that's what I hear, and exactly that's in there. IIR
Hi Glenn,
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:27:28PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> I have to change the domain name of a Jessie server I'm working on. How do
> you do it? (Aside from putting the FQDN in /etc/hostname, which kinda works.)
I normally put the short name in /etc/hostname and then the:
> On Nov 11, 2016, at 3:31 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:47:48PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
>>> On Nov 11, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>>
>>> So... what are you actually trying to do? Be very specific.
>>
>> Well, I'd like the domain name to be the same
> On Nov 11, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Joe wrote:
>
> I think we still do not have the terms of reference straight.
>
> First of all, it's a server. Who is it serving? People within the local
> network only, people out on the Net, or both?
Both. It's on the 'Net, but it's also where the email comes in
On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:47:48 -0700
Glenn English wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Greg Wooledge
> > wrote:
> >
> > So... what are you actually trying to do? Be very specific.
>
> Well, I'd like the domain name to be the same everywhere. hostname -f
> and whois (that currently return
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:47:48PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > So... what are you actually trying to do? Be very specific.
>
> Well, I'd like the domain name to be the same everywhere. hostname -f
hostname -f is totally useless. Wh
> On Nov 11, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> So... what are you actually trying to do? Be very specific.
Well, I'd like the domain name to be the same everywhere. hostname -f and whois
(that currently returns the ISP's info) and /etc/hosts and host and a
DNS lookup and everythin
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:27:28PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> This seems to be a common question -- it's all over the 'Net.
>
> I have to change the domain name of a Jessie server I'm working on. How do
> you do it? (Aside from putting the FQDN in /etc/hostname, which kinda works.)
That depe
This seems to be a common question -- it's all over the 'Net.
I have to change the domain name of a Jessie server I'm working on. How do you
do it? (Aside from putting the FQDN in /etc/hostname, which kinda works.)
I've seen several posts on the subject, all contradicting each other, and none
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:54 +0200, Kenneth Grande wrote:
"Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something
> > else, could this be because there is a dhcp server running and the interface
> > is configured to accept dhcp?
>
"Kenneth Grande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think he means that his resolv.conf gets overwritten by the information
> provided by the dhcp server as discussed here (with solution):
OP:
[...] could this be because there is a dhcp server running [...]
It is not very clear were this server is r
. oktober 2006 17:42
Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Emne: Re: set domain name
"Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best way to set the local domain and a debian server?
Use the command 'hostname'. If you want to preserve the change over
r
"Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best way to set the local domain and a debian server?
Use the command 'hostname'. If you want to preserve the change over
reboots edit /etc/hostname
> Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something else,
> could
What's the best way to set the local domain and a debian server?
Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something else, could this be because there is a dhcp server running and the interface is configured to accept dhcp?
thanks
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