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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
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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
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