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From: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
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Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 issues (the sendmail in FreeBSD 2.1.5.)
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>According to Thomas David Rivers:
>> and, after a quick perusal of the m4 files, you see that nodns
>> doesn't actually do anything anymore... and there is no
>
>I wasn't sure and  included it anyway. You'll  see I don't even use anymore
>:-)
>
>> way to have sendmail not do DNS...  in my situation, it always
>> failed talking to the name server, and then simply queued the
>> mail. (Exactly what is described in that paragraph....)

<excuse me if this answer has been given, I miss the start of this discussion>

I had a similar problem with sendmail when I upgraded, the solution is 
to create a file /etc/service.switch that has the line:

hosts	files


Don't ask me where this is documented, I don't think it is. I got the 
answer straight from Eric Allman.

Mark