Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: "buildaddr: no host"? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 05:34:39 GMT References: <1991Feb14.222613.3587@Think.COM> <1991Feb15.220501.15332@Think.COM> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: rlk@think.com's message of Fri, 15 Feb 91 22:05:01 GM In article <1991Feb15.220501.15332@Think.COM> rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) writes: vix> Yes, that will work, if all your local mail really goes to the same place. vix> We've got ~1400 users and ~30 mail servers, so the aliases file is nec'y vix> for us. Your solution is better in the pure case (one mail server). rlk> You can still have one mailhub that distributes all mail to the rlk> satellite servers (a three level hierarchy). This avoids the problems rlk> of distributed alias databases and associated confusion. I would do that if I could find one host on my network which was guaranteed to be up all the time, and reachable all the time by all other subnets. As it is, I'd rather put my eggs in 30 baskets than one. -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie