[plug] Smartlist/Exim and Westnet

[John Usher (Maptek)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Phillips [mailto:T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2004 3:41 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Smartlist/Exim and Westnet


>> If "hostname -f" doesn't provide a FQDN, edit /etc/hosts so you have:
>>
>> w.x.y.z    tokimi.<domainname> tokimi
>>
>> the IP address is not important, but having the FQDN (first) and
short
>> name on the same line is essential
>
>Bingo! It had the non-FQDN first. Y'know, I've been adminning UNIX
boxen for 
>many years now, and this is the first time this has come up as an
issue. I'll 
>certainly remember it for future use tho - FQDN first in /etc/hosts for
local 
>machine. ^_^

Interesting! I'm discovering the same...

The rule I learnt always used to be unqualified first, then fully
qualified, but I have been noticing of late that all the automated tools
now do it the fully qualified name first...

Tools like sendmail always did(/do?) their best never to look at a hosts
file too! ;-)