After rebooting sendmail servers, internal servers must fully qualify for mail

[Gary L. Burnore]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:42:23 -0600, in article
<9pi349$qcj$1 na nntp1-cm.news.eni.net>, "Christopher" <chankins na rhythms.net>
wrote:

>Help anyone?
>
>We rebooted our sendmail servers, and now all of our internal servers need
>FQDN when sending mail.
>Example:
>Old way(what we want again):  blah na domain.net
>new way: blah na mail.zone.domain.net
>
>What controls that?  Is this a sendmail issue?  No changes were made to DNS.
>Any help would be appriciated!  Thanks!

W_H_Y_ did you reboot? Did you upgrade _anything?  Chances are good that you
did. If so, you likely wiped out your sendmail.cf or, more likely, your
sendmail.cw (what this machine is known as).  

Get them from your backup.  (You _do_ do backups, right?)


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