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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!spool.mu.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!newsie.dmc.com!news.zipnet.net!usenet From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Lookup problems Date: 1 May 1996 18:09:24 GMT Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4m89ck$mvl@news.zipnet.net> References: <4kpiuf$hpv@news.nstn.ca> <4l46ec$ah@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: mi@ALDAN.algebra.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip29-max1-bos.zipnet.net X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Honorable Brian Somers wrote on 18 Apr (in article <4l46ec$ah@anorak.coverform.lan>): ='cos sendmail things it's smart and doesn't use "gethostbyname". I find =this enormously irritating too ! I have a local network, all of which is =specified in my /etc/hosts file. I also have demand-dialed PPP. If I =send mail to a local machine, the PPP link comes up, the DNS at the other =end says "never heard of him" and sendmail happily sends things (it must =look in /etc/hosts). For this case (unknown to world hosts) I'd change your /etc/host.conf to have `hosts' _before_ `bind' ... -mi -- "Windows for dummies"