Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 06:54:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does sendmail bring up my iijppp link? (2.2.2-RELEASE) Message-ID: <199707271354.GAA05730@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727035840.24904C-100000@DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org> from "Donald Burr" at Jul 27, 97 04:01:21 am
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Donald Burr wrote: > > I'm running a 2.2.2-RELEASE system. Pretty stock, i.e no major changes > made by me. I'm running the standard sendmail.cf file that is distributed > with it. I've got iijppp (aka usermode PPP) set up and working correctly > in demand dialing mode (ppp -auto). I'm also running a nmaeserver on this > machine. > > 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? (tweaking > sendmail.cf, etc.?) If so I would gladly appreciate any help that you > could offer. yea, sendmail is doing DNS lookups. when it tries to connect to the DNS server, it brings up your PPP link (which must be set to auto). i have not tried this but add FEATURE(nocanonify) FEATURE(nodns) to you .mc file run m4 on it install it as /etc/sendamil.cf restart sendmail jmb
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