Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on > doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a > way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if > the address cannot be resolved there? I assume it doesn't use > /etc/host.conf, because that already has: > > order hosts,bind > multi on
Well, with smail when this happens it's because smail is looking for MX DNS records, not A DNS records; to get smail to use the hosts file you need to tell it to use the gethostbyname router for certain locations (you do this by having a gethostbyname router with the "required" attribute before your other routers). I suspect that sendmail is doing the same thing - that is, looking for MX DNS records, which means bypassing the hosts file. You need to somehow tell sendmail to just use gethosbyname() instead of DNS stuff; maybe there's a way to have sendmail look for address (A) DNS records, which should amount to the same thing as using gethostbyname(). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
