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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help me write a FAQ so that many can benefit (calling all wise men.. women r OK 2 )
Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:11:47 GMT
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landau@yu1.yu.edu (k) wrote:
> Forgetting about the CDROM for a moment. It seems that the first
> nesecity is to configure the machine so that there is a valid local
> host and then setup (or disable) sendmail so that you don't get an
> error message every morning you come in.
Say your /etc/hosts looks like
192.168.0.1 myhost myhost.my.domain
Then please add
192.168.0.1 myhost myhost.my.domain myhost.my.domain.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(Note the trailing dot.)
I consider this a bug in the resolver library (as i've been discussing
it here), but the above should be a suitable workaround.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)