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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:39:55 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
Cc:        Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to get rid of Sendmail DNS lookups?
Message-ID:  <19990712143955.H21403@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990711135644.A30695@myhakas.matti.ee>; from Vallo Kallaste on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 01:56:45PM %2B0300
References:  <19990710200757.A29197@myhakas.matti.ee> <Pine.OS2.3.95.990711112433.337A-100000@CENTRAL> <19990711135644.A30695@myhakas.matti.ee>

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On Sunday, 11 July 1999 at 13:56:45 +0300, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 11:28:10AM +1000, Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Tried putting "hosts" before "bind" in /etc/host.conf?  Make sure that
>> /etc/hosts has a localhost entry and an entry for the hostname.
>
> Yes, sure. The /etc/hosts contains:
>
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 192.168.0.1	tiiu
> 192.168.0.2	mari
> 194.126.98.135	solaris.matti.ee	solaris
>
> /etc/host.conf:
>
> hosts
> bind
>
> /etc/service.switch:
>
> hosts	files
>
> I have two computers, the new one named tiiu and an old 486 named mari
> which is almost all the time down. I haven't specified the domain part
> in the rc.conf for hostname, but I have tried it too with no difference.
> The network interface is up on the tiiu all the time but shows no
> carrier. I guess it doesn't matter is it up or not. I have "ppp -auto me"
> running. It's really very simple setup, practically one computer linked
> to internet over partial-time dynamic ppp. The solaris entry in the
> hosts file is the SMART host for sendmail, I'm getting all the mail over
> POP3 from the same host. Delivery mode is deferred. I have no clue why
> sendmail does DNS lookup when told not to do so. Weird. Any additional
> thoughts?

I've noticed this too.  Based on the documentation, it's not clear
whether it's a bug or a feature.  But there used to be a configuration
variable for sendmail which would completely remove any DNS lookups in
the binary.  You'll have to look in the sources to find it.

Greg
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