more comments on Fedora Core

[Elton Woo]

On September 27, 2003 08:46 pm, Joe <Joe <joe at tmsusa.com>> wrote:

> >My /etc/hosts file:
> ># Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> ># that require network functionality will fail.
> >127.0.0.1      localhost.localdomain   localhost
> >127.0.0.1      dhcp-133-74             localhost
>
> It looks as though you have an error in your hosts file - I'll bet you
> anything that the dchp-133-74<whatever> does not resolve to 127.0.0.1,
> but rather to the address of your eth0 interface instead.

You mean I should put the MAC address where I have 127.0.0.1 instead?
Thus: 00:e0:29:4f:22:12  dhcp-133-74     ... instead of
         127.0.0.1             dhcp-133-74             localhost?

> >Sendmail doesn't hang, it just takes so bloody looong! I've just

>
> postfix is rather snappy to start up, as well as in handling the mail. I
> have no idea why anyone would want or need all the baggage and
> complexity of sendmail just for a local smtp transport facility.

I don't. In fact, I don't think I need either. From what I've been reading
on this and in the other beta list, postfix seems to be the preferred
one.

Elton ;-)
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