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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Misc A/UX Questions
Message-ID: <5729@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Jun 91 11:08:15 GMT
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In article <54149@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, only here for the beer) writes:
}MATLEVAN@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes:
}
}>I am not running a Name Server, but do use a
}>host table. Post a message to any of the neighboring machines
}>and I get a "Host Name Lookup Failure".
}
}Our sendmail won't run without a name server somewhere on the network to
}attach to. (sigh)
}

My port of sendmail 5.64 includes hacks that allow sendmail to look in
/etc/hosts if the nameserver query fails (either because the server couldn't
find the hostname (you used an alias defined in /etc/hosts) or if the server
isn't running.

Pre 2.0 versions of A/UX's sendmail did a similar thing...

It's available via anon-ftp on jagubox :)

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           Jim Jagielski                    NASA/GSFC, Code 711.4
     jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov               Greenbelt, MD 20771

"If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as a man
 and then compare the relative brain size, we know find that the penguin's
 brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it WAS!"