SELinux Attack!

[Karl Larsen]

Vinayak Mahadevan wrote:
>> I thought it was localhost not
>> resolving.  The answer is that your machine can't resolve its own name.
>> "k5di" is not defined in /etc/hosts, and your DNS servers are public
>> ones.  What is your full hostname?  k5di.xyz.com - what is the "xyz.com"
>> part of your machine's name?
>>
>>     
>
> I had the same problem of sendmail and other net-related services
> starting after a delay. I first thought that selinux was the problem
> and then i had turned it off. That also did not solve the problem.
> Then once i changed my dns servers setting (Now I use opendns.com dns
> servers) I have not faced any problems and all the services are
> starting properly
>
> FWIW
>
> Vinayak
>
>
>   
    I have had all those problems in the past years. But this problem 
yesterday was in fact caused by SELinux. I say that because different 
from your experience when I turned off SELinux all the problems went away.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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