Am Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:58:12 +0100 schrieb "Tim Dettloff" <dettloff_at_gmail.com>: > One thing you have to remember about sendmail is that in most cases it > has to use dns, as mx records cannot be specified in /etc/hosts. > > See "sendmail specifics" http://www.sendmail.org/email-explained.html. This isn't about sendmail and resolving MX records (and I agree that you can't do it with /etc/hosts), it's about broken nsswitch behavior which can be detected with e.g. sendmail and broken reverse DNS setups. Bye, Alexander. -- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 WL http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/registry/1FZ4DTHQE9PQ8/ref=wl_em_to/Received on Sun Feb 19 2006 - 13:34:09 UTC
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