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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD - any advice? Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:13:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <59n06l$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <matt.850577353@praetor> 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 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32960 matt@praetor.hna.com.au (Matt McLeod) wrote: > Sendmail for mail-routing, but I'm considering a switch to Smail (only older > Linux sendmail binaries seem to handle UUCP correctly - newer binaries > [including those in the last FreeBSD snapshot I looked at] don't handle > routing via smarthost correctly [they insist on checking with a nameserver, > even when told not to], so I'll have to compile it anyway, so I may as well > evaluate other options while I'm at it). You need (as it's described in the FreeBSD FAQ -- but that's why we call it a FAQ, since the question is frequently answered :) both: FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl in your .mc file. Of course, if you don't have a nameserver at all, you also need to comment out `bind' from /etc/host.conf, otherwise your sendmail will try to lookup the local hostname via the resolver, and thus DNS. Sendmail doesn't use (external) DNS for me, and i'm running it this way for quite some years now. The only difference is that i'm preferring a local nameserver, and thus have `bind' first in host.conf. People telling you that you gotta recompile sendmail to work without a nameserver are only clueless (but it's not very hard to become clueless with sendmail, admittedly :). -- 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. ;-)