Although my host file looks messy, it works.
I am running both Apache and Exim on the same server.
I tried your way, and Apache would not restart.
With your /etc/hosts file, I got
hostname: Unknown host
after typing
annapolislinux:/home/tjk# hostname -f
Both port 25 and port 80 are redirected from another OpenBSD multi-homed machine to this server.
This is the actual host file on the machine. Note the commented sections where I tried your solution.
annapolislinux:/home/tjk# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
#192.168.1.111 *.breezysolutions.com www.breezysolutions.com breezy \
*.annapolislinux.org www.annapolislinux.org annapolis
#192.168.1.111 breezy.breezysolutions.com www.breezysolutions.com breezy \
www.annapolislinux.org annapolis
#192.168.1.111 breezysolutions.com www.breezysolutions.com breezysolutions\
annapolislinux.org www.annapolislinux.org annapolislinux
192.168.1.111 www.annapolislinux.org annapolislinux
192.168.1.111 annapolislinux.org
192.168.1.111 www.breezysolutions.com breezysolutions
192.168.1.111 breezysolutions.com
192.168.1.254 bsd.annapolislinux.org bsd
It may not be the best way, but I need both Apache and Exim to work.
If someone suggests a better way, I will use it.
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:23:51AM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 01 August 2001, Theodore Knab said:
> > These have allowed me to setup Cyrus-imapd partially, but I am not sure what else I need.
> >
> > /etc/hosts
> > 192.168.1.111 www.breezysolutions.com breezy
> > 192.168.1.111 www.annapolislinux.org annapolis
> >
> > Also, does this output mean that Exim is miss configured ?
> > I telneted using annapolis which is aliased to annapolislinux.org, but it refers to itself as breezysolutions.com.
>
> That's not a mail problem, it's a resolver problem. (The "resolver" is
> the part of the C library that converts between hostnames and IP
> addresses. Don't confuse it with DNS: it will certainly use DNS if you
> ask it to, but it can also use your /etc/hosts file, NIS, NIS+, ...)
>
> Having two lines for the same IP address in /etc/hosts looks dodgy to
> me. Having two names for the same host is fine, but one of them must be
> canonical. Whatever "hostname" reports is the canonical name for this
> system, and it's what the host reports itself as (eg. in an SMTP
> greeting).
>
> Debian is like traditional Unices in that "hostname" reports an
> unqualified name, eg. on my PC:
>
> $ hostname
> cthulhu
>
> This comes from the /etc/hostname file:
>
> $ cat /etc/hostname
> cthulhu
>
> which is read at boot time by /etc/init.d/hostname.sh. (Red Hat,
> annoyingly, insists on putting a fully-qualified hostname in its
> /etc/sysconfig/network file. This sucks if you don't have a domain
> name. I *think* it's just an artifact of their config/install scripts,
> though.)
>
> The Linux "hostname" utility has the marvelous -f (--fqdn) option to
> give you a fully-qualified domain name; you should probably consider
> this to be your host's canonical name:
>
> $ hostname -f
> cthulhu.gerg.ca
>
> "hostname -f" uses the resolver to work its magic. Here's an example of
> what it does, using the Python interface to the resolver:
>
> $ python
> Python 2.1 (#2, May 8 2001, 10:50:59)
> [GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from socket import *
> >>> gethostname() # like "hostname" from the shell
> 'cthulhu'
> >>> gethostbyname_ex("cthulhu")
> ('cthulhu.gerg.ca', ['cthulhu', 'localhost'], ['127.0.0.1'])
> >>> gethostbyname_ex("cthulhu")[0] # this is what "hostname -f" does
> 'cthulhu.gerg.ca'
>
> The canonical name, alias list, and IP address returned by
> gethostbyname_ex() are all determined by my /etc/hosts file:
>
> 127.0.0.1 cthulhu.gerg.ca cthulhu localhost
>
> This is slightly unorthodox, but I don't know my "real" IP address -- it
> comes from my cable company via DHCP, and changes every couple of
> weeks. In your case, you seem to have a static IP address, so your
> /etc/hosts should probably look like this:
>
> 192.168.1.111 breezy.breezysolutions.com www.breezysolutions.com breezy \
> www.annapolislinux.org annapolis
>
> Note that the canonical hostname comes first; the other names are just
> aliases. Putting "www" names in /etc/hosts is a bit silly; they need to
> be in DNS (probably as CNAME records) so the outside world can see them,
> so putting them in your /etc/hosts is just redundant.
>
> "man hosts" for details on the hosts file.
>
> Hope this helps --
>
> Greg
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