Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 12:45:23 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Weird behavior (bug? fix included) with sendmail/dns/gethostbyname Message-ID: <9605281645.AA20095@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605241954.OAA02123@base486.synet.net> References: <199605241954.OAA02123@base486.synet.net>
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<<On Fri, 24 May 1996 14:54:20 -0500, Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> said: > Again, just as expected. I'll also mention that the test program does *not* > result in a dns lookup. So, I don't know what sendmail is doing that the > order of the hostnames would make a difference. Sendmail needs to know the fully-qualified domain name of your host. You didn't provide it. (Sendmail knows that the first address listed by gethostby*() is the canonical one, and it is not allowed to use noncanonical ones.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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