Return to BSD News archive
#! rnews 1523 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.csc.fi!kronos.fmi.fi!dionysos.fmi.fi!hurtta From: hurtta@dionysos.fmi.fi (Kari E. Hurtta) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please Help: Name server timeouts from sendmail Date: 12 Oct 1995 11:29:30 GMT Organization: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) Lines: 11 Message-ID: <45iu6q$e7q@kronos.fmi.fi> References: <451uoc$4o5@agate.berkeley.edu> <456tb1$61k@uriah.heep.sax.de> <45carv$a2h@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dionysos.fmi.fi 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 In-Reply-To: Article <45carv$a2h@agate.berkeley.edu> of F E Wilkinson X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5(beta3).0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:21142 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7376 forest@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Forest Edward Wilkinson) writes: »Also, if the libc resolver is used anyway, why does sendmail talk »directly to DNS by default? Does it need to do so in order to find MX »records? If that's the case, am I losing MX functionality by specifying »"nodns"? To find MX records. If MX is not used, then you must specify 'smart host' (ie. host what knows MX records ...)