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From: jsd@esl.ESL.COM (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.hp
Subject: NOT routing thru DOMAIN.ORG?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 18:36:58 GMT
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Reply-To: jsd@bambam.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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Organization: ESL Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Is there a straight forward way of making sendmail know of the following
line in /etc/hosts:

1.2.3.4     nodename      nodename.DOMAIN.ORG

and consequently sending mail addressed to nodename.DOMAIN.ORG directly
to nodename and not go thru unnecessary nodes like DOMAIN.ORG?

The real problem is that the majority of our traffic is between local
nodes (ie. in /etc/hosts and on a reliable network), but we still need
to be part of the DOMAIN.ORG for remote mail.  The network to DOMAIN.ORG 
is "less than reliable", so we don't want our local traffic depending 
on it.

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-- 
Jeff Dalton, ESL Inc.                    Real programmers can write 
jsd@esl.com                                 Fortran in any language.