I haven't read through all of this, but is this a CentOS 7 machine? If so .. I believe that systemd has some name resolution facility in it. Has that been looked into? On August 25, 2018 2:11:38 PM CDT, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 18:16, TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com> >wrote: >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of >Stephen >> > John Smoogen >> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 3:58 PM >> > To: CentOS mailing list >> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working >> > >> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 14:15, TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > >> > > #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns >> > > hosts: dns files myhostname >> > > >> > >> > ^^^ that's probably broke also. >> > hosts: files dns >> > >> > That should be it. Putting dns first works if you can guarentee >that >> > DNS works fine all the time but if your DNS caches that localhost >> > doesn't exist then /etc/hosts isn't used. >> > >> > > aliases: files nisplus >> > >> > since you are doing email >> > >> > aliases: files >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Stephen J Smoogen. >> Hello, >> >> Made those changes and rebooted. No change. Still times out. >> > >OK in that case something is really taking your system for a ride. I >would check to see if that 71.28.79.87 is your 'public' ip address >with > >curl -4 icanhazip.com > >if it is then something from named or some other utility is >translating localhost for you. host -v localhost might give you more >information on what is giving lookups crazy answers > >[smooge at linode01 ~]$ host -v localhost >Trying "localhost.members.linode.com" >Trying "localhost.smoogespace.com" >Trying "localhost" >;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10855 >;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > >;; QUESTION SECTION: >;localhost. IN A > >;; ANSWER SECTION: >localhost. 10800 IN A 127.0.0.1 > >Received 55 bytes from 66.228.53.5#53 in 0 ms >Trying "localhost" >;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2461 >;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 > >;; QUESTION SECTION: >;localhost. IN MX > >;; AUTHORITY SECTION: >localhost. 10800 IN SOA localhost. nobody.invalid. 1 3600 1200 604800 >10800 > > > >-- >Stephen J Smoogen. >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos