Re: Name service error for name=localhost type=A: Host not found

From: Pierre Lebrun (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 11:28:14 EST

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    Kai Fürstenberg a écrit :
    > Hello Pierre,
    >
    > Pierre Lebrun wrote:
    >> Hello,
    >>
    >> I'm new to postfix and have a problem
    >> when sending a message from a machine
    >> of my network to on
    >> the postfix server.
    >>
    >> What I understand is that postfix tries
    >> to resolve localhost.
    >>
    >> My postfix is postfix-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.2
    >>
    >> Feb 28 09:12:19 antispam postfix/smtp[27549]: 3D44D64077:
    >> to=<>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or
    >> domain name not found. Name service error for name=localhost type=A:
    >> Host not found)
    >>
    >> Where did I do the misconfiguration ?
    >
    > You should provide a bit more information than "something's wrong, what
    > is it?"
    >
    > See http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail
    >
    > Otherwise we can only guess:
    > - check your /etc/hosts file for an entry
    > 127.0.0.1 localhost
    > - check your /etc/resolv.conf for an entry `order host,bind` or something
    >
    Thank you for your link to the Postfix Debug cook book.
    I found the solution with debugging infos.

    Pierre


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