Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 issues (the sendmail in FreeBSD 2.1.5.) Message-ID: <199608170555.WAA00451@osprey.grizzly.com> In-Reply-To: <199608162329.BAA26558@keltia.freenix.fr> (roberto@keltia.freenix.fr)
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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
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