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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems porting from sun to 386bsd Message-ID: <C55FB4.8F@veda.is> Date: 8 Apr 93 05:01:51 GMT References: <1ptigvINNjv1@manuel.anu.edu.au> <C53sKK.8w@veda.is> <1993Apr7.110108.21995@cm.cf.ac.uk> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 22 [I wrote] >>The correct fix is to replace every occurence of "localhost" with "localhost." >>in the mail.local.c file. paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: >The "correct" fix is not to change mail.local.c at all! >Actually this looks like the same problem that Jonas Olsson is having >with the resolver. There shouldn't be any need to change mail.local.c, >it works fine as it is. The problem appears to be (from other reports) >that there is not a localhost entry in the DNS database. Try ping >localhost, you'll probably get an error with that as well. Bzzzt! wrong. Check it out, localhost belongs in the root domain, that is why it requires the '.' or else it ends up in your domain, which would be pretty pointless. Try 'ping localhost.' and you'll see that it works. -- Adam D. (adam@veda.is)