> ... To handle lookups for local hosts, you should run named and force
> named to look in the hosts file before trying other nameservers.
In the hope of saving someone some time, it is certainly not necessary
to run named (bind) just to keep sendmail happy. Possibly, if you
have several hosts on a local net, named is a Good Thing and it does
help with sendmail config, but for a single machine it's overkill.
<pedantic>
Named doesn't use the /etc/host.conf or /etc/hosts files.
</pedantic>
One of the biggest obstacles to solving 'the sendmail problem' is the
flood of conflicting opinions and suggestions, to which I have just
added. Therefore, I will shut up now ;-)
<Joe
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