Unqualified Name

[Dougf]

We get a sendmail msg: <br>
unable to qualify my own domain name (hpbox) -- using short name<br>
My unqualified host name (hpbox) unknown; sleeping for retry.<br>
<br>
We are a Novell shop, static IP. The hosts file has the ip and host name. There is no full domain extended host name. No do we have any remote or other hosts on the network.<br>
<br>
Is the problem the extended name? A send mail problem? Any help is appreciated.

 

[MikeLacey]

Doug,<br>
<br>
Couple of questions:<br>
<br>
1) What's in your resolv.conf file?<br>
2) Can you &quot;ping hpbox&quot; from the hpbox?<br>
<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<p>Mike Lacey<br><a href=mailto:Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com>Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[AndyBo]

If you just want to shut sendmail up, try adding another alias for your hosr into /etc/hosts. eg:<br>
<br>
10.11.12.13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;myhost&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;myhost.mymadeupdomain.com<br>
<br>
If this doesn't work, you might want to try turning off sendmail's DNS lookups. IIRC, there's a &quot;NODNS&quot; directive you can enter into the sendmail m4 config file.<br>
<br>
HTH

 

[MikeLacey]

Oh - and resist the temptation to fiddle with sendmail for the moment - there are dragons in there.<br>
<br>
-ml <p>Mike Lacey<br><a href=mailto:Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com>Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[Dougf]

Mike:<br>
resolv.conf has nada in it, except a name server and ip.<br>
yes I can ping from the console.<br>
Everyone:<br>
I edited the hosts file and put in the fully qualified domain name. Our DNS does not resolve anything but server names. The novell guys do not want any excess "stuff" unless it points outside or to the dmz beyond the firewall. So far no sendmail msgs like the aforementioned. Thus I think the problem was a combo of DNS and hosts file, if the DNS could resolve the Unix broadcast of a server name with the corresponding fully qualified name everything was kosher; alternatively if the hosts file had the fully qualified name it didn't need to resolve itself. Or so I think<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help!