Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 08:11:32 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "John Booth" <JOHN@gab.unt.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS and mail. Message-ID: <199507271511.IAA24678@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 95 08:41:12 CST." <1C19BC5276F@gab.unt.edu>
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>I have configured a few FreeBSD boxes with NIS and it seems when >sending mail it appends the domain to the address...for instance >my host is ulantris.csci.unt.edu and I had it in the .cas.unt.edu nis >domain. Replied mail would get ulantris.csci.unt.edu.cas.unt.edu... >is there a way to turn this off, or should the NIS domain and the DNS >domain always be the same?. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > College of Arts & Sciences > Computing Services > John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu This behavior is controlled by your mailer. I remeber this being a problem with elm. When I worked at TCS, we hacked around this problem, but I don't recall the patch. Your NIS domain and DNS domain can differ. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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