On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:48 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 29/04/07, Gloria Brown <Gloria@???> wrote:
> > When I attempt to send a message with rmail, /var/log/exim4/mainlog says
> > that "no IP address found for host <PW>" "Look up of hos <PW> failed in
> > smarthost router". [Here "<PW>" is my password]
> >
> > When configuring exim, when it asked for the hostname of the outgoing
> > smart host, I entered:
> >
> > "smtp.registeredsite.com:hartford-hwp.com:<PW>"
> >
> > Do I have the syntax wrong here?
>
> If you wrote the config yourself, please post the contents of your
> smarthost router. If you used some automated config mechanism, best to
> consult the docs for that mechanism, since vanilla exim doesn't ask
> you questions about smarthosts.
Peter, I wrote the config myself.
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdoman localhost
192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel
[+ ip6 lines]
/etc/networking/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
To simplify things, I removed my hardware firewall, and now $ netstat
-rn shows I have no routing table at all!
Haines Brown (using his wife's machine)
