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Article #2808Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts
From: Steve Grandi
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1988 14:38
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1988 14:38
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In article <285@hal.UUCP> ane@hal.cwru.edu (Aydin "Bif" Edguer) writes:
>My suggestion AS A TEMPORARY FIX would be just to use the internet number
>for the site rather than the site name. Try mailing to ane@[129.22.144.1]
>rather than ane@hal.cwru.edu. It should work either way.
About half the time when we try such a mail address, we get back an error
from the other machine's sendmail saying "I refuse to talk to myself" and
the user's mail drops on the floor one more time!
In other words, I agree with Greg that having bind use /etc/hosts as an
ultimate backup would be desirable although I have survived so far by
adding a few "unregistered" names to my local name server.
--
Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, 602-325-9228
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!ncar!noao!grandi From: grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID: <893@noao.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 14:38:14 GMT References: <713@ncar.ucar.edu> <1469@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <Sep.20.12.33.16.1988.6235@athos.rutgers.edu> <1473@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <285@hal.UUCP> Reply-To: grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi) Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ Lines: 15