Anyone have any ideas on this one?
Now that I've got ML 9.0 installed, I've run into a problem with postfix.
No matter where an incoming connection is coming from, the syslog shows
postfix reporting "connect from unknown[{ip address}]" - even when coming
from sites that I *know* should resolve because they did under ML 8.2.
I found out from someone else that apparently you now need to have a copy
of your hosts and resolv.conf files in /var/spool/postfix/etc for some
reason. I copied my files from /etc to that location, and the local home
network machines now show names on the connection (thanks to their hosts
entries). But anything outside my local net (which obviously isn't going
to be in my hosts file) still doesn't. I've verified that named is running
on my machine, and i can even do "hosts" commands to look up hostnames and
IP addresses, so DNS for my machine is functional.
/var/spool/postfix/etc/host.conf file:
order hosts,bind
multi on
nospoof on
spoofalert on
[root@janet etc]# cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
nospoof on
spoofalert on
/var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf file:
search <my domain>
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver <ISP DNS>
nameserver <ISP DNS>
So, anyone have any ideas as to why postfix can't seem to figure out the
hostname of an inconnection connection? I expect to see *some*, since not
everyone has their DNS records correctly configured. But not *all*
connections. Like I said, connections that I *know* should resolve, don't.
Any help here would be appreciated.
--Dave
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