Subject: RE: setting IP address
To: None <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/27/1998 08:03:24
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:59:05 -0700 (PDT), Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Michael Joy wrote:
> > sendmail just got stuck in a loop because I don't have an offical name for
> > it. I put in 192.0.0.50 macbsd-pluto in hosts
> > should I take that out and put it only in ifconfig?
> 
> I'd say keep the hosts line. I've never gotten sendmail working with a
> faked up address before (mainly as I try to stay away from sendmail config
> as possible). Someone else probably knows how to fix this.

You just have to make up a FQDN, e.g. macbsd-pluto.mjoy.com or
whatever.

Ken