From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 15:13:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA07098 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07059 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id JAA06313 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 09:45:29 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA20095; Tue, 28 May 1996 12:45:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 12:45:23 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605281645.AA20095@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Dave Bodenstab Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Weird behavior (bug? fix included) with sendmail/dns/gethostbyname In-Reply-To: <199605241954.OAA02123@base486.synet.net> References: <199605241954.OAA02123@base486.synet.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Again, just as expected. I'll also mention that the test program does *not* > result in a dns lookup. So, I don't know what sendmail is doing that the > order of the hostnames would make a difference. Sendmail needs to know the fully-qualified domain name of your host. You didn't provide it. (Sendmail knows that the first address listed by gethostby*() is the canonical one, and it is not allowed to use noncanonical ones.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant