topic Re: sendmail and hosts config issue in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail and hosts config issue

Rajesh G. Ghone — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:46:12 GMT

Hello All,

I am having host entry in /etc/hosts & /etc/mail/sendmail.cw.
still i am getting an error message "unable to qualify my own domain name"
can somebody help me??

Regards.

Re: sendmail and hosts config issue

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:50:52 GMT

did you stop and restart sendmail?

Re: sendmail and hosts config issue

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:56:15 GMT

Hi

In your host file put another alias for the host followed by a full stop

ie

xx.xx.xx.xx hostname hostname.

Paula

Re: sendmail and hosts config issue

V. V. Ravi Kumar_1 — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:58:48 GMT

hi,
in /etc/hosts put the host entry as follows.

172.25.1.3 hpdev.cmcltd.com hpdev

Regards

Re: sendmail and hosts config issue

Michael Steele_2 — Wed, 21 May 2003 12:20:12 GMT

Quick test is with 'nslookup'. Verify both:

nslookup hostname

nslookup ip

Use 'set_parms ip_address' / 'set_parms hostname' for ease of use. This self driven application takes all the worry out of it. Note the reboot.

Re: sendmail and hosts config issue

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 21 May 2003 12:29:29 GMT

Hi:

The usual condition for seeing this messages is a server that is *not* running DNS. Technical Knowledge Base docuement #KBRC00002236 offers the corrective procedure.

Regards!

...JRF...