Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:42:12 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: foo@virtual-voodoo.com Cc: re@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reversed behavior with nsswitch.conf Message-ID: <20060218124212.363545a1@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <43F5F531.2070900@virtual-voodoo.com> References: <20060216094646.8qqpg683cwk0o0ww@netchild.homeip.net> <43F5F531.2070900@virtual-voodoo.com>
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Am Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:09:21 -0500
schrieb Foo <foo@virtual-voodoo.com>:
> 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.
Is it possible for you to update to 6.1-BETA2? Either by doing a binary
update or by updating /usr/src and doing a build/install?
I haven't tested it, but someone suggested in private mail to use
"hosts: files [success=return] dns" (he told me this is the way linux
distributions are doing this) which suggests that the documented
default criteria in nsswitch.conf(5) doesn't work. Can you test if this
work-around works?
Bye,
Alexander.
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