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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please Help: Name server timeouts from sendmail Date: 7 Oct 1995 23:01:05 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <456tb1$61k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <451uoc$4o5@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: sendmail bind named dns freebsd firewall timeout queue smart host Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:20860 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7001 Forest Edward Wilkinson <forest@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: Well, kill you firewall. :-) >If I add "FEATURE(nodns)dnl", mail to external hosts gets passed off to >the firewall correctly. However, I don't want to diable DNS lookups. FEATURE(nocanonify) is probably what you are looking for. Perhaps you need both (nocanonify and nodns), that's what i'm using here. "nodns" is misleading: of course, as long as your libc is still using the resolver, sendmail _will_ use the DNS. It only avoids speaking to DNS _directly_, bypassing the resolver library. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)