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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!dinsdale.hna.com.au!matt From: matt@dinsdale.hna.com.au (Matt McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Moving from Linux to FreeBSD - any advice? Date: 25 Dec 1996 04:02:43 GMT Organization: Hunter Network Association, Australia Lines: 27 Message-ID: <slrn5c19r3.c9.matt@dinsdale.hna.com.au> References: <matt.850577353@praetor> <59n06l$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dinsdale.hna.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33104 On 23 Dec 1996 22:13:41 GMT, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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. I figured this out after posting the above stuff (from the FAQ, of course). Works fabulously at home now, and I suspect that the UUCP hub will like it a lot too. Matt