Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:58:12 +0100 From: "Tim Dettloff" <dettloff@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reversed behavior with nsswitch.conf Message-ID: <5b0444b50602190458m3cbe0341w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43F5F531.2070900@virtual-voodoo.com> References: <20060216094646.8qqpg683cwk0o0ww@netchild.homeip.net> <43F5F531.2070900@virtual-voodoo.com>
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On 17/02/06, Foo <foo @ virtual - voodoo . com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have run into this as well. I am a student in a class that required > us to set up sendmail in an environment where we don't have access to > the local DNS, so all our resolution is done via /etc/hosts. I had to > be able to send email between our three *nix boxes, and it kept breaking > on the DNS resolution. Initially, I used mailertable entries to > circumvent the issue since every other strategy I found to turn off DNS > resolution for sendmail didn't work. However, upon reading this, I > switched the order of the > "hosts" settings in nsswitch.conf and got rid of the mailertable entries > and it worked. So yes, I have run into the issue as well. I am using > 6.0-RELEASE. > > Hope this helps. > Joel > Hi, One thing you have to remember about sendmail is that in most cases it has to use dns, as mx records cannot be specified in /etc/hosts. See "sendmail specifics" http://www.sendmail.org/email-explained.html. Tim
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