Re: Strange error during boot. sm-mta??

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:22:11 +0000, while recovering from a drunken
stooper, Chronos <chronos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


:Yes, it matters. The object of this is to stop your machine querying the
:outside world for asylum, asylum.local and 3.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. I
:suggest the following in /etc/hosts:
:
:192.168.2.3 asylum asylum.local
:
:The format of the file is IP Address -> [-> aliases] all separated by
:whitespace. I would be tempted to add your router to this file as well.
:Assuming it's on 192.168.2.1, the following line will do:
:
:192.168.2.1 router router.local
:
:Don't expect nslookup to resolve these names. nslookup does exactly what
:it says on the tin: Looks up names from a nameserver, ignoring
:nsswitch.conf.

Here is what ive done but something is still amiss. I'll paste what
ive done first.

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost <--- this did nothing for me.. I'll
explain in a second.

192.168.2.1 router router.local
192.168.2.2 asylum asylum.local
192.168.2.3 laptop laptop.local
or whatever.

now when i ping asylum.local it pings my pc... this is good im
guessing. but now when i ping localhost, it pings 127.0.0.1 which
doesnt resolve.

asylum# ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

when I ping 127.0.0.1 I get the same error. Now when I comment that
line out for localhost in the "hosts" file, it resolves localhost to
192.168.1.254. Im guessing that somehow I need to fix it so that
127.0.0.1 is actually localhost which apparently it isnt at the
moment. i also am thinking about changing my other area around to
this.


192.168.2.1 router.local routher
192.168.2.2 asylum.local asylum
192.168.2.3 laptop.local laptop

I think that should be ok?? then the ip is bound to a nickname. I
think once I figure out how to fix the localhost problem my sendmail
will fall into place. I was reading somewhere that someone had a
similar problem with their localhost being screwed and it caused the
same problem.

By the way, thanks allot for being patient with me. I really
appreciate it.
.

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