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From: pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: hiding local nodes
Message-ID: <254@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 09:47:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: pinney.254
Posted: Tue Sep  2 09:47:00 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Sep-86 18:41:51 EDT
References: <219@munsell.UUCP> <634@mips.UUCP> <20292@rochester.ARPA>
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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Summary: summary of responses

Thanks to all those who responded to my request.  I needed to hide the
existance of all my local machines from the outside world. 

One early suggestion was to put

FE/etc/hosts.local %s

up near the top of the sendmail.cf and put

R$=E!$+			$2
R$+@$=E			$1

near the top of ruleset 3 (S3).

This didn't work.  It couldn't open the file "/etc/hosts.local %s" (I
created the file /etc/hosts.local and filled it with the names of the
machine I was interested in hiding).  I removed the %s and it still
didn't work. 

Another suggestion was to place

CEjesen spitfire mini
CElotus rover triumph

at the top and to place

R$=w!$=E:$-

in ruleset 4 (S4)

This didn't work either.

However, when I initialized my sites with the CE construct and used the
additions to ruleset 3, it worked. 

I don't know why the F contruct didn't work, the documentation suggests
that it should work. 

Thanks to all those who responded!

decuac!avolio, mips!djl, utme!dennis, hoptoad!gnu (I'll use your stuff
as soon as my head stops spinning and I understand it, looks real
useful!)

					pZ

-- 
  Paul Czarnecki		55 is a good idea, for thermostats!
  Eikonix, Corp.
  Bedford, MA			{adelie,encore,infinet}!munsell!pz