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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!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!f400.n712!f515.n712!f401.n711!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Distribution: world X-Comment-To: digdon@yohoho.org From: Trev Roydhouse <Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 18:52:00 +1000 Subject: Re: Lookup problems Message-ID: <835785594@f401.n711.z3.ftn> Organization: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia X-FTN-AREA: COMP.UNIX.BSD.FREEBSD.MISC X-FTN-Tearline: QM v1.30 X-FTN-Origin: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (3:711/401.0) X-FTN-SEEN-BY: 711/401 501 712/400 515 X-FTN-PATH: 711/401 712/515 X-FTN-PATH: 712/400 Lines: 22 > In my /etc/host.conf file, I have the following > entries: > hosts > bind [...] > However, when I try to send mail to > user@pirate.yohoho.org, sendmail says > that it can't lookup the name of the host. What's > going on here? Ping gets the name/number from the hosts > file, but sendmail doesn't. Why? Probably because you have told sendmail to insist on doing a nameserver lookup to resolve names :-) Check your /etc/sendmail.cf for and comment out the OI option. TREV.