Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:35:06 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mhenrion@cybercable.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail 8.11 problem Message-ID: <39AAA2C9.F9D8A505@cybercable.fr>
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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
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