Alexander Leidinger wrote: >Am Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:09:21 -0500 >schrieb Foo <foo_at_virtual-voodoo.com>: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I have run into this as well. I am a student in a class that required >>us to set up sendmail in an environment where we don't have access to >>the local DNS, so all our resolution is done via /etc/hosts. I had to >>be able to send email between our three *nix boxes, and it kept breaking >>on the DNS resolution. Initially, I used mailertable entries to >>circumvent the issue since every other strategy I found to turn off DNS >>resolution for sendmail didn't work. However, upon reading this, I >>switched the order of the >>"hosts" settings in nsswitch.conf and got rid of the mailertable entries >>and it worked. So yes, I have run into the issue as well. I am using >>6.0-RELEASE. >> >> > >Is it possible for you to update to 6.1-BETA2? Either by doing a binary >update or by updating /usr/src and doing a build/install? > >I haven't tested it, but someone suggested in private mail to use >"hosts: files [success=return] dns" (he told me this is the way linux >distributions are doing this) which suggests that the documented >default criteria in nsswitch.conf(5) doesn't work. Can you test if this >work-around works? > >Bye, >Alexander. > > > I tried the "hosts: files [success=return] dns" in nsswitch, but it didn't work. I'll have to get back to you on the upgrade thing...if for some reason the machine flips out on the update I don't have time to fix it before checkoffs. Plus my group members would kill me. -JoelReceived on Sun Feb 19 2006 - 00:05:59 UTC
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