John, Weird question, but if web and e-mail are going to be on the same box. Do I need to do mail.hostname.tld or can I just to hostname.tld? For the MeowBox.me domain. for DNS A-record: @ is the public IP A-record mail is the public IP. Mx record is 0 mail mail.meowbox.me On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 4/8/2013 11:17 AM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > but `hostname -f` says: > > > > $ hostname -f > > hostname: Unknown host > > put the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network, as .. > > HOSTNAME=full.domain.name.com > > example... > > $ more /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > NETWORKING_IPV6=no > HOSTNAME=hostname.mydomain.com > GATEWAY=x.y.w.x > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >