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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: More problems with sendmail/IDA and DECnet
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.182958.18722@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 18:29:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.182322.24341@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <1991Jun10.214235.23180@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Jun11.173526.15436@njitgw.njit.edu>
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In article <1991Jun11.173526.15436@njitgw.njit.edu> brw@hertz.njit.edu (Brian White) writes:
>
>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.

  Or perhaps the whole idea of using that file (/etc/svc.conf) is wrong.  Could
it be that the appropriate order for interactive commands like telnet and ftp
should different from the order in non-interactive processes such as sending
mail?


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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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