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From: brw@hertz.njit.edu (Brian White)
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Subject: Re: More problems with sendmail/IDA and DECnet
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.173526.15436@njitgw.njit.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 17:35:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.182322.24341@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <1991Jun10.214235.23180@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1991Jun10.214235.23180@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <1991Jun10.182322.24341@ulowell.ulowell.edu> oneill@ulowell.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes:
>>
>>When run in address test mode, with "user@condor.dnet", it seems to work
>>fine, with Ruleset 26 reporting the use of Dmail. However, given the
>>fully-qualified name of "user@condor.dnet.ulowell.edu", Ruleset 8 strips the
>>".dnet.ulowell.edu" off the end, apparently when it uses the resolver to
>
>  It sounds like a combination of the following:
>
>   1.	An entry in /etc/hosts (or in your YP hosts map) of the form
>
>	1.2.3.4		condor		condor.dnet.ulowell.edu
>
>and
>   2.	A broken gethostsbyname() which looks in your hosts table/map before
>	consulting your name server.
>

One of the few things DEC does right is the /etc/svc.conf (on Ultrix versions
>= 4.0) file. You can tell the resolver routines where to look first (hosts, 
DNS,YP-Hesiod) when doing a name lookup. Possibly the order in this file is 
incorrect for Mr. O'Neill's purposes.


Brian White, System Manager
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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