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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: how to use sendmail with /etc/hosts Date: 22 May 1996 09:10:27 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4nulm3$ja5@sidhe.hsc.fr> References: <4nuen6$83d@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:27966 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19837 [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <4nuen6$83d@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net>, Dirk Nerling <nerle@pdv.de> wrote: > I try to run sendmail at a very small equipment, "only" two > FreeBSD boxes (2.1R and 960501 SNAP). So don't want to run DNS. > Unfortunately they can't deliver mail, if I try "sendmail -v > user@foo.com </etc/hosts" Use the following lines in your .mc file: FEATURE(nodns) FEATURE(nocanonify) That will prevent DNS lookups. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-