Paul Schoonderwoerd wrote:
>Try putting an entry for home-hehbbzsuy7 with the ip-address in /etc/hosts.
>Possibly also add the Fully Qualified Domain Name (fqdn) in there, something
>like
>192.168.1.5 home-hehbbzsuy7.snow.email.ne.jp home-hehbbzsuy7
>
>
This is a local machine and there is no actual registered domain name,
only localhost.localdomain. I also should add, that I was not trying to
get sendmail to run at all, as I'm not using it. With the IP being
dynamic, how would adding a static IP entry in /etc/hosts help?
>Is the dns-server really reachable on/via 10.0.0.138 ?
>
yes, as it is the DSL router which acts as both Gateway and DHCP server
as well as DNS
> Try 'dig ns.nl.net' and
>see if it resolves to 193.78.240.1. Check the last four lines of the output
>of this command for te query-time and the server which was queried.
>
>
[ozboy@mumpc ~]$ dig ns.nl.net
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> ns.nl.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3406
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns.nl.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.nl.net. 32324 IN A 193.78.240.1
;; Query time: 29 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.138#53(10.0.0.138)
;; WHEN: Tue May 2 20:15:13 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 43
hostname "name" changed the hostname,
[root@home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]# hostname mumpc
[root@home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]# hostname
mumpc
but it returned to original,
[ozboy@home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]$ hostname
home-hehbbzsuy7
upon reboot. How is this changed permanently? Cheers.
Mark Sargent
