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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: how to use sendmail with /etc/hosts Date: 31 May 1996 22:58:36 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4oom6c$3ao@itchy.serv.net> References: <4nuen6$83d@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> <4nulm3$ja5@sidhe.hsc.fr> <DrwrKM.A7F.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:28236 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20447 In article <DrwrKM.A7F.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >In article <4nulm3$ja5@sidhe.hsc.fr> roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) writes: >I have three machines on a network that is sometimes connected to the >outside world, and I'd like it to be able to deliver mail on the local >network when it's not connected. > You might want to set up local DNS, it's probably a better way to manage a host list than /etc/hosts anyway. In this case, the larger net will only be polled if the information isn't known on the local nameserver. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson