On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Robin Gilks wrote about, Re: Subject: sendmail + masq/ipfw
solutions for multi-user system?:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > I'd like to keep the amprnet and internet operations completely
> > separated.
> >
> > The machine I have was using diald and every time I sent smtp to another
> > 44 station, it dialed up my ISP to do a DNS lookup, even though I am
> > routing 44 traffic out my radio port. /etc/hosts works fine for
> > telnet, ftp, etc., but not smtp (at least I haven't found a way to do
> > this.) I have run JNOS a bit, and have pointed 'dns nameserver' to a
> > DNS via the local gateway, but if I run kernel AX.25 I don't know how
> > to use a different DNS for ampr.org than I use for everything else.
> >
> > I was thinking that running a 'cache-only nameserver' with a local
> > zone file for 44.xxx might work for this application. As an
> > alternative, is there a way to configure sendmail (or exim, postfix,
> > qmail, etc.) to look at /etc/hosts first before trying a DNS lookup?
> >
> Hi Bob
> Sounds to me as though you have exactly the setup I have and suffering the same
> problems with sendmail - I never managed to stop it forcing a dialup for DNS
> resolution even though I had the full ampr.org DNS domain loaded on the local
> DNS.
One possable solution to the DNS problem could be compiling sendmail
yourself with
define NAMED_BIND 0
in conf.h
As to it being an overal solution raises possably more questions than
answers.
> I switched to Exim which now also allows a 'psuedo hopper' facility for those
> stations without MX records that are reachable locally. smtp hopper will be
> familiar to *NOS users - its a kludge to relay smtp to the next station (ie
> gateway) in the IP route to the desitination The effect can be duplicated in
> Exim by either using an external director program or by using the new
> translate_ip_address feature.
>
> If you or anyone else is interested further, I can post some of the (smaller)
> configuration files for Exim and bind to assist in their setup
>
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