Lo, on Thursday, April 4, Alan Poulton did write: > Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:35:53 PM, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > 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. > > HMM! Interesting point! No, I don't want mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get > sent to my ISP. In that case, should I change my hostname? Or is there > a way to prevent it from routing to my ISP?
Actually, now that I think about it, I adjusted the exim configuration (qualify_recipient and local_domains settings) to prevent this kind of misdelivery; check your MTA's docs. I think I redid the domain name just for added safety, although there may well have been additional reasons; I don't honestly remember. > My etc/hosts now looks like this: > > 127.0.0.1 hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net localhost loopback hotstuff > 192.168.43.1 hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net hotstuff > > ----- > > I have a Dynamic IP through my ISP - should I have (or need) the second > line? No, probably not. It's superfluous, as well as likely incorrect---you may have gotten 192.168.43.1 last time you connected, but you'll probably get a different IP next time, especially if you're using PPP. However, since I believe gethostbyname(3) and related functions search through the entries in /etc/hosts in order, I don't think it's doing any harm. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
