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From: miorelli@pwa-b.uucp (BoB Miorelli)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: help with sendmail/smail2.5
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.195152.23956@pwa-b.uucp>
Date: 13 Jul 90 19:51:52 GMT
Sender: miorelli@pwa-b.uucp (BoB Miorelli)
Organization: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
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I have a problem with sendmail 5.61 (4.3BSD-tahoe, VAX785) and smail2.5.
Most times everything works well, but I cannot send mail to several
addresses on my local ethernet.  Instead of sending mail via "ether",
sendmail is using "uux".  Of course, this fails with "unknown host".
There seems to be no difference with local machine addresses that
work and those that don't.  A particularly puzzling case is:

191.29.70.9  ws709 suntest     # a line from /etc/hosts

Mail to ws709 fails with mail attempted over uux, mail to suntest works
correctly over the ethernet!!   
I might add that all of our workstation node names are od the form wsXXXX
where XXXX is a 3- or 4-digit number.

running sendmail -bt and ruleset 0 shows the problem, but for the life
of me I can't figure out why.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-- 

-->BoB Miorelli, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
           also, H & R Block tax preparer and Instructor
pwa-b!miorelli