What hostname do you use on your computer?

[Knute Johnson]

Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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> Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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>>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
>>>>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>>> If I set my computer to localhost.localdomain then I can relay
>>>>>> mail just fine.  What do you do if you don't have a fixed IP?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>> hang on....frazmtn.com links to Frazier Mountain Internet Service
>>>>> is this you or your ISP?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> frazmtn.com is my ISP.  I have a couple if fixed IPs, one of which is
>>>> hosted as sagebrush.frazmtn.com.
>>>>
>>> have you thought of having an internal dns setup? For the relaying to
>>> work you'd need to have a dns record for the workstation and at the
>>> moment this machine is not 'resolvable'.
>>> Why don't you just give a hostname that is not a fqdn if you don't run a
>>> DNS server?
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>>> (o<    Thierry Sayegh De Bellis, RHCE
>> OK, so if I just set the hostname to 'knute' then what do I want in my
>> hosts file, /etc/hosts file and in my /etc/sysconfig/network files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> assuming the machine has a static IP (on your LAN)
> /etc/hosts looks like
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> <your IP> 	knute
> 
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=knute
> 
> hth
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> (o<    Thierry Sayegh De Bellis, RHCE

So now sendmail hangs on startup for about 2 minutes.  There must be 
something else to set?

Thanks,

knute...

[knute at knute ~]$ hostname
knute

[knute at knute ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1     localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.3.5     knute

[knute at knute ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
HOSTNAME=knute
[knute at knute ~]$

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Knute Johnson