Re: domain name

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:37:32AM +0000, Greg Andrews wrote:
> Howdy All,
> 
> I am new to redhat, but have been using slackware for a while, and so 
> am at least partially familiar with linux.
> 
> I have bulit myself a rh7.2 machine which I am using to "learn" rh , 
> but unfortunately as there is a shortage of $ , it is also the machine 
> I use at home.
> 
> The problem I have at the moment ( one of many ) is that I cant get 
> the beastie to sendmail.
> 
> As I control the domain ( and hence dns ) that I am attaching to via 
> modem I have entered the named and IP address of the machine in the 
> dns . I have also added in the mail server that I wish to sendout 
> through a relay-domains entry specifically for this machine. 
> 
> I was having a poke around in the /etc/sysconfig/ of the rh7.2 machine 
> and must have changed something ( but cant remember what )also have 
> been using the GUI interface to  and now all I get from my mail server 
> is relay denied messages for sending.
Do you have a line like this in /etc/hosts.allow
sendmail: all 
Hoprfully you don't habe all: all in that file.
Have you changed sendmail.conf as described in the release notes?
> 
> If I start sendmail on the rh7.2 machine itself I get cannot resolve 
> domain messages and it wont send mail. I have had this thing working 
> and I believe I have set it back to the configuration which used to 
> work but somehow it doesn't want to play ball.
> 
> I have noted with interest that there seems to be more than one place 
> where the hostname and domain are kept.
> Ie  /etc/sysconfig/network  and 
This is the place where hostname is kept. domainame is also kept here but is not
really essential unless you are using NIS. dnsdomainame is the one you want to set.

> /etc/sysconfig/networking/default/profiles/network ( or something like 
> this as I am doing this from memory on my machine at work ). Is there 
> any reason for this structure ?
> 
> Is there a file which holds only the domain information?

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