As far as I know I'm not running named. I am not using sendmail (at least it was never my intention) for the host name. I really don't have a qualified domain name. This is where I'm a little bit fuzzy. If I named this machine "bonsai", does this something got setup to send mail to this domain? Message: 9 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:05:54 -0400 From: rbragg <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Name Resolve Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > My machine is acting as a dhcp server, router and > firewall. > I have named it "bonsai" > The problem is that when sendmail starts, it take > forever to startup. I think it is trying to resolve > the name. I have place 192.168.100.1 bonsai bonsai > into the hosts file. > > Below is a short list of the contents of my maillog > file. Is there a way to correct this? > I have a bunch of entries just like this. > > un 13 07:34:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: My unqualified > host name (bonsai) unknown; sleeping for retry > Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: unable to > qualify my own domain name (bonsai) -- using short > name > Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: alias database > /etc/aliases rebuilt by root > Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: /etc/aliases: > 63 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 625 bytes total > Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1852]: My unqualified > host name (bonsai) unknown; sleeping for retry > Jun 13 07:36:09 bonsai sendmail[1852]: unable to > qualify my own domain name (bonsai) -- using short > name > Jun 13 07:36:09 bonsai sendmail[1854]: starting daemon > (8.12.8): SMTP+queueing@xx:00:00 > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > Are you running named? Are you using sendmail to recieve mail to your domain? my hosts file is just: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain and then I have named set up for my IP address. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
