mail port 8025 conundrum

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-17 17:16, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>David Banning wrote:
>>>Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> root# ls -l /etc/hosts*
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1694 May 13  2005 /etc/hosts
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3027 Mar 27  2005 /etc/hosts.allow
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   421 Mar 27  2005 /etc/hosts.equiv
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    99 Apr  3  2003 /etc/hosts.lpd
>> root# ls -tl /etc/nss*
>> ls: /etc/nss*: No such file or directory
>> root#
>
> Er, I'm pretty sure it's /etc/host.conf (no "s").

You're absolutely right, of course.  Sorry for the confusion :-)

> But if your /etc/hosts doesn't contain the hostname you are after,
> that only leaves DNS, NIS and LDAP (I think) for the host.conf file to
> order.  For DNS, what does "host whatever.your.hostname.was" show from
> the machine where you seem to be getting the wrong answer?

Good question :)