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#! rnews 1716 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!News.HTWM.De!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!news.uni-jena.de!news.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Lookup problems Date: 14 Apr 1996 17:50:05 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4krdsd$7el@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4kpiuf$hpv@news.nstn.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 digdon@yohoho.org (Mike Digdon) writes: >I am having a problem with sendmail and name lookups. > >In my /etc/host.conf file, I have the following entries: >hosts >bind > >This obviously means check the /etc/hosts file first, and then go through >named. Except for sendmail. Sendmail bypasses the resolver library, since it tries to canonify each destination host (i.e., resolve CNAMEs). You gotta write: FEATURE(nodns) FEATURE(nocanonify) in your /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf/mymachine.mc file, recompile mymachine.cf from it, and install it as /etc/sendmail.cf. (The sendmail config files are available in a separate source distribution, if you don't already have full sources.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)