Hi, I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will solve). It looks like a configuration problem.
Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names, your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc. See ya. E.- Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi, : I've a small "intranet" running with debian. In fact, there are only two : machines which are not connected to the internet. : I don't use a name server on either of the machines, it's not needed. : Addresses are read from /etc/hosts. : I use the latest sendmail package but can't send mail from one computer to : the other. I get something like 'Deferred: p4.: Name server : hostname lookup : failure". Well, I don't understand what happens. I configured sendmail to not : use any name server (FEATURE(nodns)), so there shouldn't be the cause. : Address canonification works fine when I turn it on in sendmail.mc, so : there's no trouble with /etc/hosts (ping,telnet,ftp and samba are ok as well) : Is this a problem with the current sendmail package? I remember correctly, when : I used another distribution a year ago, I solved this by recompiling sendmail. : Any ideas what could be wrong or what I could try? Thanks, : Ulf. : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .