Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 20:35:13 -0500 From: Dan Welch <WELCHDW@wofford.edu> To: QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.org Subject: mail coming in, not going out Message-ID: <970301203513.29c0acfc@wofford.edu>
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Machines on which I install FBSD 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 from the distribution cdrom's are unable to send mail to other machines on the local network. The failure mode is that the outgoing messages are queued with this error message in them: MDeferred: Name server: gp.dept.net.: host name lookup failure The network is isolated, contains FreeBSD machines only, does not run DNS, and has all addresses in /etc/hosts on every machine. Incoming mail works fine, as do rlogin, telnet, and ftp. My sendmail m4 configuration file specifies FEATURE(nodns) and the order in /etc/host.conf is hosts then bind. I use versions of FreeBSD earlier than 2.1.5 (each using its accompanying sendmail version) without difficulty; mail works well in both directions. Help? I don't understand this new problem at all.
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