On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Cary B. O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Paul Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > mail isn't a problem, outgoing mail gets queued until the queue is
> > > run (via sendmail -q), and local mail is delivered immediatelty.
> > >
> > > Connecting from clients is the problem.
> >
> > Yup, sounds like DNS like you said. I believe the problem is that your
> > clients are using external DNS. If they're linux systems, a quick fix is
> > to add all the machines in your network to the /etc/hosts on each of the
> > clients. There's a similar ../etc/hosts file for winnt. I don't know
> > about other OSs but you may be forced to run named on your server which
> > opens up another whole can of worms, but in the end is the best solution.
> >
> Another problem can be sendmail looking for the IP address of your
> diald interface. I do not fully understand this, but I have found
> that if you see lines like...
>
> Jun 9 01:03:21 zeus sendmail[2860]: gethostbyaddr() failed for 192.168.0.1
>
> When diald brings up the link, you may have to add the IP address
> that failed to /etc/hosts.
A more usable solution would be to add a command to the sendmail
configuration that tells it not to look up domain names. I saw a post on
that fairly recently, but I deleted it and can't remember what it is. I'm
not even sure that it came through on this list.
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