Janina's mail problem.

[Janina Sajka]

I think I started out like that, with only a 192.168 address for my fqdn
and only added it on 127 when things didn't work. I will try this again,
however, and will report.
 On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> My default hosts file which came from the Slackware 7.1 distro contains a
> very interesting comment which might be causing some of your problems.
> Let me attach my hosts file into this message including the original
> comments.  I do not name my machine on the 127.0.0.1 (loop back) address.
> I put my machine name on the network address (192.168.1.1 in this case.
> ------ hosts file -------
> #
> # hosts		This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
> #		mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly
> #		used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
> #		On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
> #		"named" name server.  Just add the names, addresses
> #		and any aliases to this file...
> #
> # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra at nvg.unit.no> says that 127.0.0.1
> # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine.  It causes problems
> # for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)
> #
>
> # For loopbacking.
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 192.168.1.1 lnx1.holmesgrown.com lnx1
> 192.168.1.2 steve.holmesgrown.com steve
> 192.168.1.3 winme1.holmesgrown.com winme1
> 192.168.1.4 lnx2.holmesgrown.com lnx2
>
>
> # End of hosts.
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ari Moisio wrote:
> >
> > >   Hmm... would it help if you put something like
> > >
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost. toccata.grg.afb.net.
> > >
> > >   to /etc/hosts. After this resolver should be able to resolve that name
> > > to localhost. (Check it with 'host', 'nslookup' will use only bind
> > > daemon, not entire resolv library.)
> >
> > That is what I would expect, but it isn't happening, and I don't know why.
> > Here's the top of /etc/hosts:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost toccata.grg.afb.net
> > 127.0.0.1 toccata.grg.afb.net toccata
> >
> > And here's the output of nslookup toccata.grg.afb.net:
> >
> > Server:		127.0.0.1
> > Address:	127.0.0.1#53
> >
> > ** server can't find toccata.grg.afb.net.: NXDOMAIN
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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