[luau] Mail config question....

whenever whatever at whoever.net
Sun Apr 21 23:09:27 PDT 2002


did you tried dhcpcd -h VALinux <device to rr> ?


On Sunday 21 April 2002 07:37 pm, you wrote:
> Aloha all,
>
> 	I have noticed a slight problem on my box lately.  I'm running a RH 7.2
> box thru MonMotha's firewall on a separate router.  For some reason, when
> my box boots, it ends up with a hostname like "hawaii.rr.com" even though
> the eth0 is configured to use "VALinux" for the host name and the box is
> assigned a static IP address on my home LAN. Everything seems to work
> normally except for a few emails...  If I send a mail to an address other
> than @hawaii.rr.com, all is well.  However, mail to @hawaii.rr.com
> addresses fails with error from localhost "user unknown."
>
> 	This leads me to believe that my sendmail partly believes that it is
> hawaii.rr.com and thus it therefore checks for accounts on its' own box
> before sending them. Since there are only 4 email addresses for
> hawaii.rr.com accounts on my box, you can see where this can cause a few
> troubles.
>
> 	My question is this,  how do I fix it??? I think that this may be a
> networking issue, but it may also be a sendmail issue.  I just know that
> it worked fine until recently, and for the life of me, I can't think of
> anything that I may have changed in my system configuration since
> upgrading to RH 7.2 that may have started this.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Ben Beeson
>
>
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