[Tutor] smtplib with yahoo smtp server

[Ewald Ertl]

Hi!

Intercodes wrote:
> 
> My nssswitch.conf
> ----------------------------------
> passwd: compat
> group:  compat
> 
> hosts:          files dns
> networks:       files dns
> 
> services:       files
> protocols:      files
> rpc:            files
> ethers:         files
> netmasks:       files
> netgroup:       files
> publickey:      files
> 
> bootparams:     files
> automount:      files nis
> aliases:        files
> 
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

The system looks first in the /etc/hosts-File and when there is no match found, the
configured DNS would be requested.

> 
>     >This should resolve your own local hostname!
>     >The socket.gethostbyname () is a call into a shared object of
>     Python and this >would use ( So think I ) the standard-Libraries for
>     resolution.
> 
> 
> You totally lost me here :)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>     >Is "linux" a valid hostname?
>     >Does "ping linux" succeed.
> 
> 
> I suppose not.
> 
> linux:/srv/ # ping linux
> ping: unknown host linux
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here, I think is a strange problem. You can not resolve your own hostname.
Is there no entry in /etc/hosts for linux with the IP-Address of your server?
If not, try to insert such an entry.

HTH Ewald