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From: erickson@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Sendmail 5.61 on A/UX 2.00 question
Keywords: namesever recognition
Message-ID: <2008@carroll1.cc.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 18:03:44 GMT
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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I've seen the recent posts over getting a certain port of sendmail to use
a nameserver on A/UX.  I'm sure of the port number, or the A/UX version no.

My problem is somewhat related.  My domain, 'cc.edu', is not on the internet
(yet, that's coming hopefully soon...), but we are setting up a tcp/ip
network on campus.  Our domain nameserver is an AT&T unix box, and it is
connected to our new A/UX box over ethernet.  The A/UX box is a IIci 
running A/UX 2.00, sendmail version 5.61.  I was having problems getting
it to recognize other hosts on our network until I started spelling out
the full host.domain name in /etc/hosts (a little tip I picked up from this
group in the recent sendmail discussion - thanks, folks!).  Now I want to
get sendmail to use the nameserver.

In the other discussion, people were talking about some "NAMED.BIND" option,
apparently to go in the sendmail.cf file(?)  I didn't see anything like that
in our sendmail documentation.

We ordered the manual set that contains the networking guide, but I think it's
on backorder, and I'd like to get this done ASAP.

As a sidenote, our AT&T box is only running sendmail 5.59. Does anyone know
of a way to get that to look at the nameserver database?  I think that even 
though it's on the same machine, sendmail is still looking at the local
/etc/hosts file on the machine.  (I'm not 100% sure on this, though).

Thanks

Dave

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			*        Dave Erickson		*
			*    erickson@carroll1.cc.edu	*
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