From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 12:40:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA28443 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (info.tsu.tomsk.su [194.226.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28388 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id DAA19459 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:40:30 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id VAA00761 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:22:38 +0800 (TSD) From: Victor Sudakov Message-Id: <199707311322.VAA00761@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: why does sendmail bring up my iijppp link? (2.2.2-RELEASE) To: questions@freebsd.org (freebsd questions mailing list) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:22:38 +0800 (TSD) Reply-To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su In-Reply-To: <199707290023.JAA02769@freebie.lemis.com> from "grog@FreeBSD.ORG" at "Jul 29, 97 09:53:35 am" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk grog@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > Victor Sudakov writes: > > Donald Burr wrote: > >> > >> Whenever I send mail using sendmail, EVEN IF THE MAIL IS SENT TO SOMEONE > >> LOCAL TO MY MACHINE, it always brings up my ppp link. > >> > >> I find this somewhat annoying, is there any way to fix it? > > > > Use tcpdump to see what packets and where sendmail is sending. > > It's almost certainly performing a DNS lookup. You can compile a > non-DNS version of sendmail if you want. Check the documentation in > the source tree. I believe it's also possible to turn off the > resolution with the sendmail.cf file, but I haven't been able to find > the reference. This is easy via m4: FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl However, Donald wrote that he was running DNS on his machine. So would it be wise for him to use a non-DNS version of sendmail? -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm