Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

[Derek Ragona]

My guess is that DNS was propagated and now athome.net is in the maps of 
the DNS server you query.

Just change your /etc/hosts file, you can use a domain suffix that does not 
exist for instance.

         -Derek


At 12:18 PM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote:
> >I don't think your hosts file is correct, unless you are telling me you own
> >the domain athome.net.  You need to use a domain name you own or one that
> >is not in use.
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>OK.
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>No I don't own athome.net.  BUT I've been using it for years without 
>problems -- until today! As I said, the hosts file is it's always been.
>
>It seems that "localhost" just isn't local any more.
>
>I'm trying to figure what's changed and what I should do about it.
>
>So far, I've stopped all the internal mail to localhost.
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