Re: [SLUG] Sendmail quirks

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have an /etc/hosts file that is doing the resolving instead of dns?
Where is your /etc/resolv.conf file pointing? Sendmail doesn't use the
/etc/hosts file whereas ping may try it first depending on the order of
the entries in /etc/host.conf

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Howard.
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 erich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Can anyone point me towards information on how Sendmail interacts with the
> resolver library, or bind. I am trying to get sendmail running with a
> nullclient cf file, but when I send a message, the log file shows an error
> which says DNS lookup failed, yet I can ping the server with both IP address
> and the server name, so I am bit stumped.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Erich
> 
> 
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