I am soooo stuck

[isastevem]

Hello to all. First let me thank anyone who is able to assist with this issue. I am brand new to linux and am baffled to what is happening here.

I had a friend help me build a linux system and he is very good and of course as i know not very much at all but i am learning, anyway we had a bit of a fall out and i started noticing strange things. A couple of weeks back my website was being redirected to "gayporn" couldnt understand for the life of me what was happening. He was telling me that i may be suffering from DNS or Cache poisoning, anywho, he said my site which is not porn was being hit by a tom of traffic from China, India, and Canada...kinda made my ears perk up. He fixed this issue, now i had been running my server flawlessly for 2 years prior never an issue! Then this weekend on Sat I had stopped receiving my emails, at exactly 9:35 am so i did a /etc/init.d/postfix restart, everything was green lighted and ok, but still no email, so i said ok let me try to /etc/init.d/httpd restart......failure :

Starting httpd lags for a bit then i get this:

httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for host.domainname.com
httpd: could not reliably determine the servers quailified domain name using 127.0.0.1 for server name (FAILED)

[isastevem]

ok so I found a solution and mabey this will help others but i don't know if it will last cros fingers everyone.

# 1 Forced the server to restart from cmd prompt
# 2 Started the service needed /etc/init.d/mysqld restart
# 3 Started the /etc/init.d/httpd restart (this brought my website back up
# 4 Started the /etc.init.d/postfix restart (said everything was ok)
# 5 Started the /etc/init.d/named restart

All done and done, wait a minute my email still was not coming in....ok back to the drawing board...t(this linux stuff is NOT easy) but its fun! So after about an hour or two i tried something for the heck of it.

cmd postfix up came some commands. well why not try em all? bound to find one and it worked postfix flush force seemed to work because now i am getting my emails :-)

[ehawk]

I know even less about this than you, but perhaps some of these links might help:

http://www.webune.com/forums/startin...for-t5821.html

http://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/h...-name-t23.html

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=226933

http://tgrove.com/2007/12/02/httpd-a...-for-hostname/

http://www.groundworkopensource.com/...t=8966&p=17926

[grizato]

What distro r u using?