caching-nameserver vs sendmail

[Tim]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 08:29 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: 
> I installed caching-nameserver and checked the config against to the  
> DNS HOWTO. All appeared to be working well, with /etc/resolv.conf  
> reading 'nameserver 127.0.0.1'  However, on reboot sendmail hung on  
> startup.  Any ideas?

Hmm, do you have a hostname for your PC that is it something other than
localhost?  *That* hostname needs to be resolvable.

e.g. If your machine was known as "mailserver" at the example.com
domain, and an IP address of 192.168.0.1, it'd have a FQDN name of
"mailserver.example.com", and you'd want your DNS server to have the
appropriate records correlating the names and IP addresses.  Probably in
both directions (forward zone that answers with that IP for that name,
and a reverse zone that answers with that name for that IP).

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