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From: consult@physc1.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.61 problem
Message-ID: <63consult@physc1.byu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 90 03:06:22 GMT
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I did a little more testing and found that the problem is related to the
local /etc/hosts file.  In there some of our machines are listed as

128...    hostname

and some as

128...    hostname  hostname.cs.byu.edu

The machines I can mail to are the ones that have the hostname.cs.byu.edu
entries in the /etc/hosts file.  So now my question is, why is sendmail
doing all the bind queries when in the end it only relies on the information
in the hosts file?  Did I miss a compile switch or something to compile
sendmail to use the resolver routines?  I thought this was the default for
4.3BSD.

Thanks again for any help or suggestions.

        Cary
        cary@cs.byu.edu