[CS-FSLUG] Sending E-mail's via Network

[Tim Young]

The nsswitch.conf file (/etc/nsswitch.conf) file determines which has 
presidence, the /etc/hosts file or the DNS.  If you are getting the 
localhost.buddy, then you can change the order through which names are 
looked up.  Usually, however, the /etc/hosts file is accessed first.

If you look in the /var/log/maillog (or wherever syslog puts the maillog), 
you should be able to tell if you are getting something that looks like 
buddy.localdomain or localhost.buddy or whatever.

	- Tim

David M. wrote:

>>but I think you are getting 
>>buddy.buddy and localhost.buddy because the system needs to resolve partial
>>host names (without a period) into a fully qualify hostname (with at least
>>one period).  I think it uses /etc/resolv.conf to do this - my guess is you
>>have a line 'search buddy' in there which adds '.buddy' to the end of the
>>'buddy' hostname that contained no periods.  Somedays I like to make
>>statements like this simply to see if anyone tells me I don't know what I'm
>>talking about.
> 
> 
> any info creates clues which eventually becomes a solution. :-)
> 
> here's my etc/resolv.conf
> [root at Buddy root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search wowway.com
> 
> woway.com is from Wide Open West, my cable internet provider. I now wonder if 
> because  WOW automatically takes care of this, it is contributing to my 
> problems.