From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 14:51:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09358 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA09352 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:51:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA07060 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:51:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA17424; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:49:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970402004957.UW00921@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:49:57 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS & Sendmail References: <199704010420.WAA00706@knight.trosoft.com> <199704012020.VAA01643@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704012020.VAA01643@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Apr 1, 1997 21:20:17 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Somers wrote: > > When I kill named, I can start sendmail. > [.....] > > Does FEATURE(nodns) and FEATURE(nocanonify) help ? It shouldn't. Sendmail has no reason to try canonifying anything else than its own hostname on startup. The originator had a named set up for his own stuff, as it seems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)