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Article #2812Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts
From: Bill Wisner
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 01:55
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 01:55
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>>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! Quite common. The sendmail.cf used at MIT LCS takes care of this by defining class I as a list of all valid IP addresses for the site. One of the rulesets rewrites user@[xx.xx.xx.xx] into user@LOCAL and everything's peachy. Bill Wisner wisner@killer.dallas.tx.us killer!wisner
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!ucsd!ames!killer!wisner From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID: <5589@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 22 Sep 88 01:55:13 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> <893@noao.UUCP> Reply-To: wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner) Organization: HASA Lines: 13