What is in /etc/host.conf?
Mark
>
> Sending this to stable, because you folks are used to dealing with wierd
> problems like this...twice to -questions got no replies.
>
> Any ideas....thanks
>
> --
> Ok, yesterday things got wierd.
>
> My workstation at work is running 4.0-R, and I recently changed the IP
> address. I kept the old IP bound as well, for a few weeks, just in
> case.
>
> Well, yesterday i removed the old address from the NIC, and things
> broke. At least, that is when i noticed them breaking. fetchmail stopped
> retrieving my mail.
>
> The error that fetchmail gives is:
> fetchmail: reading message 1 of 321 (2776 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< Ken,
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> Ok, wierd sez I.
>
> think that is wierd?
>
> damoe:/home/keen%> telnet damoe.wireless-isp.net
> damoe.wireless-isp.net: No address associated with hostname
> damoe:/home/keen%> ssh damoe.wireless-isp.net
> Host key not found from the list of known hosts.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? ^C
> Received signal 2.
> damoe:/home/keen%> nslookup damoe.wireless-isp.net
> Server: dns1.wireless-isp.net
> Address: 208.61.227.10
>
> Name: damoe.wireless-isp.net
> Address: 208.61.227.212
>
> damoe:/home/keen%>
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> Telnet doesnt want to resolve names! I've tried all of the nameservers i
> have handy, including the one running on the workstation...nada.
>
> I cant seem to find a way to get telnet to give me anything more verbose
> for the error, though. I find nothing of it in the logs, either.
>
> Suggestions??
>
> Fyi, I did try adding the old IP back to the NIC, same thing. Even
> swapped everything back to the old ip scheme...nada.
>
>
> What am i missing? I've changed IP addresses on many FreeBSD boxen since
> 3.0-R...(what can I say, I was a bsd/os guy before that..;) with never a
> problem..at least not such as this.
>
> Thanks for your help..
>
> ...david
>
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> David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications
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