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RE: EHLO greeting does not send FQDN
Duh..
I'll just go and crawl under the 'stupid' rock for a while..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mea@nic.funet.fi [SMTP:mea@nic.funet.fi]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 4:02 PM
> To: Paquette, Trevor
> Cc: zmailer@nic.funet.fi
> Subject: Re: EHLO greeting does not send FQDN
>
> > Somewhere I must have misconfigured some file..
>
> Indeed..
>
> > EHLO/HELO is sending the following greeting
> >
> > EHLO gate
> >
> > I would like it to send
> >
> > EHLO gate.mcc.net
> >
> > Where is that set? I have set the hostname variable in
> /etc/mail.conf to
> > gate.mcc.net, but it is getting chopped for some reason(?)
> >
> > Is there an obvious place that this can be checked?
>
> File: /etc/hosts
> Line like:
> 1.2.3.4 gate gate.mcc.net
>
> Longer story:
> You likely have system configured to use initially "hosts"
> file for IP reversal resolving, and only then to look into
> the DNS.
>
> In the "hosts" file the first white-space delimittered token is
> the numeric addres, the second is the canonic name, and the
> possible extra tokens are aliases.
>
> Often people configure things so that their host canonic
> name is not in the first field...
>
> Do I need to spell out the fix ?
>
> > --
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>
> /Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi> -- wishing you good night