Subject: Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/08/1998 17:44:31
: I'm running a DNS on this machine, and /etc/hosts only
: has the hostname without domain listed:
: 10.0.0.3 miyu ns www www-proxy irc news
Does your DNS server reverse lookups for 10.IN-ADDR.ARPA? If not, Apache
will not be able to determine the host name automatically, as it does a
[pseudocode] gethostbyaddr(gethostbyname(gethostname())) to get the FQDN.
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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)