Tag Archives: hostname

Basic Hostname Set Up Part 2

June 4, 2010 – 2:16 am

I left a few things unsaid in my previous post basic hostname set up, and after talking with some people about /etc/hosts, I thought a quick follow up is in order. Firstly, my preference is to use the ethernet’s ip address to tie the host name to the FQDN, but others like to use 127.0.1.1. [...]

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Basic Hostname Set Up

June 2, 2010 – 6:15 pm

I was helping out someone with a postfix issue, and something just clicked that will speed up diagnosing similar problems. It’s not so much a postfix problem as a hostname problem, and it’s very basic. The symptom was, mail sent to the server at domain.com was being bounced. Looking at postfix logs, postfix was trying [...]

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