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From: mb@ttidca.UUCP (Michael Bloom)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias bug?
Message-ID: <295@ttidca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 06:43:07 EST
Article-I.D.: ttidca.295
Posted: Thu Jan 15 06:43:07 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 21:46:19 EST
References: <486@hao.UUCP> <1292@ncr-sd.UUCP> <489@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: mb@ttidca.UUCP (Michael Bloom)
Organization: CitiCorp TTI, Santa Monica, Ca.
Lines: 18
Keywords: uucp,sendmail,smail
Summary: Not all sendmails are equal. Make sure sendmail knows your enet hosts.

>do with it after that. I get the mail bounced with the message that host.third
>is an unknown host. I would like it to do something sensible, like send it
>over the ethernet to "second" and let that host deliver it. 

When I first tried installing smail, it did not recognize any of the
hosts on my ethernet. Turned out to be the line containing
"/etc/hosts.ether %s" which was preceded by the comment "could just be
a link to /etc/hosts".  In my case, it couldn't, because the sendmail
on the particular machine we talk to the outside world from did not
know what to do with the %s.  Instead, I had to create
/etc/hosts.ether as a file containing all our ethernet hostnames, one
per line.  We had a similar problem earlier with L.sys, and this kind
of solution also did the trick.

Michael Bloom

mb@ttidca.tti.com, if you are not on arpa, else mb@ttidca.uucp. (We
should have our arpa forwarder in about 3 weeks)