From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 10:49: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lafontaine.cybercable.fr (lafontaine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F40937B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:48:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3100280 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2000 17:32:40 -0000 Received: from r121m50.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([195.132.121.50]) (envelope-sender ) by lafontaine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Aug 2000 17:32:40 -0000 Message-ID: <39AAA2C9.F9D8A505@cybercable.fr> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:35:06 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail 8.11 problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I did a make world a few hours ago and was happy to see that sendmail 8.11 has been MFC'd. However, I experience a little problem with it right now. It seems the way sendmail determines the hostname has changed since 8.9.3. I explain why. Now, everytime I run sendmail (with -bd -q30m at boot, or with mailq or newaliases...) it freezes during some time and then finally work as expected. Since this often happens when a program isn't able to determine the local hostname, I changed my hostname to one that can resolve and it works. In fact, I have an alias in my /etc/hosts file to make my hostname resolve, because I have a dynamic IP address and no reverse DNS. So, for convenience, my box's hostname is nebula.org. It works with telnet for example, and it worked with previous versions of sendmail. However, if you want to to do a "true" resolve with host or nslookup, the domain can't be resolved. So I think sendmail now dont read the /etc/hosts file. Does this makes sense ? If someone has an idea on how to make sendmail working with a "fake" domain name, it will be very appreciated. Thanks, Maxime Henrion To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message