Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>My guess is that DNS was propagated and now athome.net is in the maps of >the DNS server you query. Probably. But (from orig post): Domain Name: ATHOME.NET Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 02-apr-2007 Creation Date: 30-nov-1999 Expiration Date: 30-nov-2015 whois sh

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread 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 correc

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>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. OK. 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

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
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. -Derek At 10:42 AM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution is >working in /etc/nsswitch.conf Thanks for your continued input! /etc/nsswitch.conf has never been changed: group: compat group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis shells: files