On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:32AM -0400, Andrew Barros wrote:
> Yes, ns1.tjhsst.edu is on the same ethernet segment as the box.
>
> 127.0.0.1 is in /etc/hosts

There is at least one MTA I know (qmail) that does not honor /etc/hosts.
There might be others like that. Make sure a lookup for 127.0.0.1 is
answered by your nameserver.

Actually, this is something that I was going to ask about in my previous
post, but I plain forgot ;) Yes, telnetd does honor /etc/hosts, some MTA's
don't. Is 127.0.0.1 in DNS?

G'luck,
Peter

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> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:25PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> ->On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:40:39AM -0400, Andrew Barros wrote:
> ->> 
> ->> There are two things that I'm sure of
> ->> 
> ->> 	1) The boxes have correct reverse DNS
> ->> 
> ->> 	2) They use ns1.tjhsst.edu as their nameserver(a different box)
> ->> 		which has the correct reverse DNS
> ->> 
> ->> The problem is that while these things are true, and out T1 is up
> ->> it works normally. When the T1 goes out, it takes a _long_ time. Telnet
> ->> ,however, is unaffected by this.
> ->
> ->When you say 'correct reverse DNS', you do mean 127.0.0.1 too, right?
> ->And (a stupid question, but one that needs asking nevertheless) ns1.tjhsst.edu
> ->is reachable when your T1 goes down, right?
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