Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 20:45:24 -0400 From: Dan Welch <WELCHDW@wofford.edu> To: Malvin.Chang@auth2.webquest.com Cc: QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG, WELCHDW@wofford.edu Subject: RE: mail coming in, not going out Message-ID: <970602204524.22a2d6f2@wofford.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 13:53:31 GMT+8
From: "Malvin Chang" <Malvin.Chang@auth2.webquest.com>
To: WELCHDW@wofford.edu
Subject: mail coming in, not going out
>Hi Dan, sorry for butting in like this. I've been searching the
>FreeBSD list and found that you have a problem which is similar to
>what I'm experiencing right now. I would like to ask if you can help
>me out assuming that you have already solve your problem.
>
>Thanks
I found the solution in the 2nd edition of the Sendmail book: create
the file /etc/service.switch and place in it the single line
hosts /etc/hosts
The book gives details. Good luck.
For those who forgot what the problem was, here's the original:
>Hi Dan, sorry for butting in like this. I've been searching the
>FreeBSD list and found that you have a problem which is similar to
>what I'm experiencing right now. I would like to ask if you can help
>me out assuming that you have already solve your problem.
>
>Thanks
I found the solution in the new edition of the Sendmail book: create
the file /etc/service.switch and place in it the single line
hosts /etc/hosts
This solved my sendmail problem with both 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 neatly.
The book explains why this works. Good Luck. ...DanW
--------------------
For those who wonder what the problem was, here's the original.
(It's a non-issue for people running DNS, I think.)
>>Machines on which I install FBSD 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 from the
>>distribution cdrom's are unable to send mail to other machines on
>>the local network.
>
>>The failure mode is that the outgoing messages are queued with this
>>error message in them:
>
>>MDeferred: Name server: gp.dept.net.: host name lookup failure
>
>>The network is isolated, contains FreeBSD machines only, does not
>>run DNS, and has all addresses in /etc/hosts on every machine.
>>Incoming mail works fine, as do rlogin, telnet, and ftp. My sendmail
>>m4 configuration file specifies FEATURE(nodns) and the order in
>>/etc/host.conf is hosts then bind.
>
>>I use versions of FreeBSD earlier than 2.1.5 (each using its
>>accompanying sendmail version) without difficulty; mail works well
>>in both directions.
>
>>Help? I don't understand this new problem at all.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?970602204524.22a2d6f2>