RE: EHLO greeting does not send FQDN

["Paquette, Trevor" <TrevorPaquette@mcc.net>]

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