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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.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!keltia.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: 1 Jun 1996 09:16:46 GMT Organization: Usenet Canal Historique Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4op1pu$vi@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <4nuen6$83d@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> <4nulm3$ja5@sidhe.hsc.fr> <DrwrKM.A7F.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.freenix.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:28246 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20482 [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <DrwrKM.A7F.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > I assume this disables the use of DNS completely. Is there an easy > way to make sendmail obey the host.conf file? For some requests that can't be handled by gethostbyname/byaddr, it calls the resolver directly (see domain.c). To inhibit all DNS use, you could also set NAMED_BIND to 0 in conf.h. > I have three machines on a network that is sometimes connected to the > outside world, and I'd like it to be able to deliver mail on the local > network when it's not connected. Use what I told before. There is simple solution for dialup type users. With this configuration (and better: use a SMART_HOST), mail is in the queue till you're connected and either wait to the reprocess of the queue or do a "sendmail -q". -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-