On 4/23/2013 5:09 AM, Embedding Linux wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday, our postfix did print some fatal errors, during > approximatively 45 minutes. The errors are all identical, about the > inet_interfaces variable : > > Apr 22 16:45:36 my_server postfix/flush[10510]: fatal: config variable > inet_interfaces: host not found: server.fqdn.name > > The error messages diseappeared after 45 minutes. > > Postfix has been running happily for quite a long time on the server, > and we did not make any change recently. > > What does this mean ? A temporary DNS problem ? > > Tia, >
Your own DNS server cannot resolve your own hostname, and you've configured postfix to depend on that hostname. To avoid this error in postfix, either use the default "all" setting, or use IP addresses as shown in the examples. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#inet_interfaces Undoubtedly there are other things that won't work correctly when your DNS is badly broken. -- Noel Jones
