On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Feroz F. Basir wrote: > Hi, > > My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use > DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I > thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our > mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to > resolve mail.domain.com to ip. > > Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to > resolve odmain.com if I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi!
You can also tell sendmail to resolve hosts first through /etc/hosts, and then try DNS. default is DNS first. angua 17:19 >cat /etc/mail/service.switch hosts files dns HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"