Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:05:49 -0500 From: Joel Gunderson <jdgunder@purdue.edu> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: re@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, foo@virtual-voodoo.com Subject: Re: reversed behavior with nsswitch.conf Message-ID: <43F7C46D.2070201@purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060218124212.363545a1@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20060216094646.8qqpg683cwk0o0ww@netchild.homeip.net> <43F5F531.2070900@virtual-voodoo.com> <20060218124212.363545a1@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: >Am Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:09:21 -0500 >schrieb Foo <foo@virtual-voodoo.com>: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I have run into this as well. I am a student in a class that required >>us to set up sendmail in an environment where we don't have access to >>the local DNS, so all our resolution is done via /etc/hosts. I had to >>be able to send email between our three *nix boxes, and it kept breaking >>on the DNS resolution. Initially, I used mailertable entries to >>circumvent the issue since every other strategy I found to turn off DNS >>resolution for sendmail didn't work. However, upon reading this, I >>switched the order of the >>"hosts" settings in nsswitch.conf and got rid of the mailertable entries >>and it worked. So yes, I have run into the issue as well. I am using >>6.0-RELEASE. >> >> > >Is it possible for you to update to 6.1-BETA2? Either by doing a binary >update or by updating /usr/src and doing a build/install? > >I haven't tested it, but someone suggested in private mail to use >"hosts: files [success=return] dns" (he told me this is the way linux >distributions are doing this) which suggests that the documented >default criteria in nsswitch.conf(5) doesn't work. Can you test if this >work-around works? > >Bye, >Alexander. > > > I tried the "hosts: files [success=return] dns" in nsswitch, but it didn't work. I'll have to get back to you on the upgrade thing...if for some reason the machine flips out on the update I don't have time to fix it before checkoffs. Plus my group members would kill me. -Joel
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