[Dclug] Telnetting to one's own machine?? -Emergency over<g>

[Alan McConnell]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:15:13PM -0400, alan at patriot.net wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom!
> 
> My fetchmail is failing on my new Debian etch installation.
> After working with tech support at patriot.net and looking
> at error messages, it seems that the messages can't be
> delivered to my own machine because smtp to my own machine
> fails!!
	And, after a bunch of searching, I discovered that it
	failed because of my /etc/network/interfaces, which was:

# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.

	Sheesh!   So I copied in the full file from my backup;
	here it is:
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
# Alan put in the next stuff, from my old etc, on 22 May 08

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

	(just thought you'd want to know<G>)

I suppose the Debian etch install didn't give me the above, because
I decided to configure the network by myself<G>.

Sorry to disturb everyone's peace and tranquillity, And thanks
to Mackenzie and Mike for their friendly responses.

Alan

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