Bug 231646 - bsdinstall(8) Unable to resolve own hostname, causes local mail to only queue
Summary: bsdinstall(8) Unable to resolve own hostname, causes local mail to only queue
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 11.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody)
URL:
Keywords: install
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Reported: 2018-09-23 21:59 UTC by leeb
Modified: 2022-10-13 17:48 UTC (History)
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Description leeb 2018-09-23 21:59:25 UTC 
Using bsdinstall(8) I made a new system but did not configure the network.
After booting into the system, local mail was not working and I was unable to

root@my-test-mach:~ # ping `hostname`
ping: cannot resolv my-test-mach: Host name lookup failure

This causes all local mail to fail, /var/spool/mqueue just fills up.  periodic scripts therefore don't populate root's mail.

Solved by manually adding hostname to /etc/hosts