isn't
127.0.0.1 localhost
suppost to be in /etc/hosts anyway?
Matt
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Carlos Alberto de Almeida Jr wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:25:55 -0200
> From: Carlos Alberto de Almeida Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Local mail causes dialout? 0.99-1/RH5.2
>
> Em dom, 10 out 1999, Mike Jagdis escreveu:
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, John Dalbec wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running diald 0.99-1 on RH 5.2 with a dynamic IP. When I send mail
> > > locally, some process (presumably sendmail) does a reverse lookup of the
> > > fake "local" address that diald assigns to the SLIP device. This was
> > > causing a dialout until I put this address into my /etc/hosts. Is there
> > > a better way to fix this (other than getting a static IP)?
> >
> > Not really. If you don't know in advance what your IP address
> > should be you have to use *something* to number the interface
> > so you can route traffic through it. Unfortunately, once you
> > have an address on an interface all kinds of programs are
> > likely to start noticing it and trying to learn the associated
> > name :-(.
> >
>
> I'm running the same configuration and having the same problem John Dalbec
> does. When I read this e-mail I put both the local and remote adresses of the
> SLIP device into my /etc/hosts. But diald is still dialing out when I send
> local mail. Is there anything else I can do?
>
>
> Carlos
>
>
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