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 at 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 at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]# hostname mumpc [root at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]# hostname mumpc but it returned to original, [ozboy at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]$ hostname home-hehbbzsuy7 upon reboot. How is this changed permanently? Cheers. Mark Sargent