Janina's mail problem.

[philwh at gate.net]

Janina, what doesyour /etc/resolv.conf file look like?
phil

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:30:10PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Ari:
> 
> Yes, nslookup 127.0.0.1 yields name =  localhost.
> 
> and nslookup localhost yields address 127.0.0.1
> 
> However, and here's the problem, I think:
> 
> nslookup toccata.grg.afb.net yields:
> 
> Server:		127.0.0.1
> Address:	127.0.0.1#53
> 
> ** server can't find toccata.grg.afb.net.: NXDOMAIN
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Ari Moisio wrote:
> 
> > Janina Sajka 23.03.01:
> >
> > HI Janina.
> >
> >   Make sure localhost resolves 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.1 resolves
> > localhost with nothin trailing. Some distributions, Redhat iirc lacks a
> > period after
> > 127.0.0.1	localhost
> > in /etc/hosts and it makes resolver add it's own idea about domain of
> > 'localhost'. Try adding that period if it is not there..
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > >Hi, Kirk:
> > >Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested and temporarily moved
> > >the top line of /etc/hosts down to be the second line, so that
> > >toccata.grg.afb.net would be the first machine defined for address
> > >127.0.0.1. Regretably, this did not do the trick. The log of a fetchmail
> > >session is below.
> >
> >
> > ...ei rommi flunssaan auta mutta ompahan mukavampi sairastaa...
> >
> 
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