From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 19 16:20:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from histidine.utmb.edu (histidine.utmb.edu [129.109.59.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EC537B426 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scms.utmb.edu (histidine.utmb.edu [129.109.59.80]) by histidine.utmb.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3INtSaD037546 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:55:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson@scms.utmb.edu) Received: from scms.utmb.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scms.utmb.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3INtP307532 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:55:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson@scms.utmb.edu) Message-Id: <200204182355.g3INtP307532@scms.utmb.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:55:24 -0500 (CDT) From: bdodson@scms.utmb.edu Reply-To: bdodson@scms.utmb.edu Subject: resolver library and changes in /etc/resolv.conf To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As part of debugging massive email failures for my local lab domain after our campus IS people changed from Solaris to Windows2000 for DNS last weekend, I had the occasion to change the name server entries in /etc/resolv.conf. I thought (wrongly it turns out) that I could just make the changes, and they would be picked up automatically. Is this sendmail remembering the name server list it got when it was started? Can I just send it a HUP and have it pick up the changes? I know that going down to single user and back to multiuser is sufficient, but is there a less intrusive way to force the changes to be recognized? I would like a procedure that worked globally for all processes, not just sendmail, if possible. TIA, Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message