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