Services Not Resolving?

[Robert Bushman]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, der.hans wrote:

> It's readable for everyone?

Yes

> Is there an environmental variable that might affect it?

<shrug>

Shouldn't be - I think those calls are system
level stuff.  There's nothing peculiar in or
not in my env.

Subject: Cron <mail@twin>   if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f
/etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/mail>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mail>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:23:01 -0700

2002-10-15 20:23:01 181R1q-0001Kw-00 TCP service "smtp" not found

> I presume UNIX sockets are working or you wouldn't be able to get on the air
> at all.

yup

> Is your networking hosed?

Just outgoing email

> Didja lose localhost?

Hmmm, interesting:

twin:/var/log# ping localhost
ping: unknown protocol icmp.
twin:/var/log# ping cisco.com
ping: unknown protocol icmp.
twin:/var/log# host localhost
localhost has address 127.0.0.1
twin:/var/log# host cisco.com
cisco.com has address 198.133.219.25
twin:/var/log# ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:14478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1233385 (1.1 MiB)  TX bytes:1233385 (1.1 MiB)


> Do you have a firewall blocking access? /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}?

Both empty



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>
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