Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:01:53 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Feroz F. Basir" <dbase77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail Message-ID: <3FE87501.7040607@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20031223160016.34726.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031223160016.34726.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com>
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Feroz F. Basir wrote: > My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use > DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? Sendmail is trying to perform an MX lookup of domain.com, and then will fall back to using an A record (or the /etc/hosts file) if that fails. > Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to > resolve odmain.com if I send to john@domain.com? Nope. But sendmail and lots of other network-aware programs (things like SSH) are happier when forward and reverse DNS is available. -- -Chuck
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