Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:15:49 +0100 From: "tomasz dereszynski" <tomaszd@paraklet.net> To: "Matthias Apitz" <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail && resolv.conf changes Message-ID: <cef31329f51d7fa3d5e89b7255b5335b.squirrel@paraklet.net> In-Reply-To: <20100914080141.GA2286@current.Sisis.de> References: <20100914080141.GA2286@current.Sisis.de>
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> Hello,
>
> When using a laptop it is normal that there are some changes in
> resolv.conf during the live, for example:
>
> boot time: no network available
> start of PPP over UMTS: resolv.conf from provider
> start VPN to connect to company: resolv.conf from company
> ...
>
> it seems that sendmail is not aware of such changes in the resolv.conf
> and always get stuck with the old DNS and ofc does not work on incoming
> mails (provided by fetchmail). A restart helps, but is there some better
> way to let sendmail switch to the new DNS environment when resolv.conf
> changes?
>
> Thanks
>
My very wide guess would be that Sendmail starts before system obtain
network settings from DHCP.
But I do not remember Sendmail settings well enough.
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