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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Lookup problems Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:01:31 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4le7nb$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4kpiuf$hpv@news.nstn.ca> <4l46ec$ah@anorak.coverform.lan> 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 brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >'cos sendmail things it's smart and doesn't use "gethostbyname". I find >this enormously irritating too ! Sendmail tries to resolve CNAME's. >Maybe sendmail has an out-of-sync algorythim and it is actually possible >to get it to look in /etc/hosts first - dunno ! out-of-sync? FEATURE(nodns) FEATURE(nocanonify) in your .mc file. -- 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. ;-)