Lo, on Thursday, April 4, Alan Poulton did write:
> I'm slowly isolating my problems with sendmail and variants. It seems
> they're asking me for my Fully Qualified Domain Name.
>
> I've given the name of my box: hotstuff
>
> My ISP is telus.net, but they give me: bc.hsia.telus.net .. so I know my
> FQDN *should* be hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net
>
> But where do I enter that?
This trips a lot of people up; it's not at all clear.
First question: do you want your FQDN to be hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net?
With exim, I ran into some problems with that (mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting sent to my ISP and so forth). I ended up giving my system a
hostname that wasn't valid outside my network, home.rcc.
Whatever you decide you want your FQDN to be, make sure your hostname
(as reported by /bin/hostname) is in fact `hotstuff'. Then edit
/etc/hosts in one of the two following ways:
A) Static IP. /etc/hosts should have at least the following two lines:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net hotstuff
where 192.168.1.1 is your statically-allocated IP. Note that your
FQDN must be the *first* thing on the line after the IP address.
B) Dynamically-allocated IP (whether through DHCP, BOOTP, PPP, or
another mechanism). /etc/hosts should contain the following line:
127.0.0.1 hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net localhost hotstuff
Again, the FQDN must be the first hostname on the line.
Once you've done this, verify with `/bin/hostname --fqdn'; it should
print out hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net.
That should set you up.
HTH,
Richard
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