On Wed, 15.05.13 12:07, Alexey Torkhov (atorkhov@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > 2013/5/15 Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > >> The only things related to networking I change is setting a hostname from localhost to f18s, f19s or f19q; and occasionally adding the b43 firmware if I decide to go wireless. > > > > Do you add the changed hostname to /etc/hosts? If not, sendmail (and > > some other things) will stop for some time trying to resolve the local > > hostname to an IP address. > > Why doesn't nss_myhostname resolve local hostname even if it is not in > /etc/hosts? My suspicion is that sendmail uses res_query() and friends since it needs MX and stuff... THis means NSS is bypassed and hence nss_myhostname and /etc/hosts won't take effect anyway... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
