Re: Sendmail to sendmail

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From: Paul Black
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:00

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huge@nospam.huge.org.uk (Huge) wrote:
> Alternatively, and IMHO easier, put the names of both machines in the /etc/hosts
> file(s), edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to read;
> 
> hosts:  files   dns
> 
> So that name lookups are done in the host files first, and leave sendmail
> well alone....

Sendmail is also very good at ignoring attempts to persuade it not to
use DNS.

Paul

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