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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Lookup problems
Date: 2 May 1996 14:26:40 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Message-ID: <4mad6g$91@anorak.coverform.lan>
References: <4kpiuf$hpv@news.nstn.ca> <4l46ec$ah@anorak.coverform.lan> <4m89ck$mvl@news.zipnet.net>
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Mikhail Teterin (mi@aldan.algebra.com) wrote:
: Honorable Brian Somers
: wrote on 18 Apr (in article <4l46ec$ah@anorak.coverform.lan>):
: ='cos sendmail things it's smart and doesn't use "gethostbyname". I find
: =this enormously irritating too ! I have a local network, all of which is
: =specified in my /etc/hosts file. I also have demand-dialed PPP. If I
: =send mail to a local machine, the PPP link comes up, the DNS at the other
: =end says "never heard of him" and sendmail happily sends things (it must
: =look in /etc/hosts).
: For this case (unknown to world hosts) I'd change your /etc/host.conf
: to have `hosts' _before_ `bind' ...
: -mi
: --
: "Windows for dummies"
Nope, doesn't work.... as I said above, sendmail doesn't use gethostbyname.
As various kind souls pointed out, we need
FEATURE(nodns)
FEATURE(nocanonify)
in sendmail.cf !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....