On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Alexandre Fornieles wrote about, Re: Subject: sendmail +
masq/ipfw solutions for multi-user system?:
> Hello,
>
> Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> This has been discussed in the debian-french list a few weeks ago and
> the "clean" solution that was suggested as per the docs was to use this
> statement in your mc files :
>
> define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')dnl
And where is one supposed to find that define ??
I cant find it in any dorectory in the src dor from the sendmail source.
Anyway it seems rather a strange define.
Please elaborate.??.
> This should prevent sendmail from doing dns lookups.
> I haven't tried it myself as i just switched to exim a few days ago and
> only have very standard dial-up needs here.
>
> So good luck.
>
> Cheers, Alex.
>
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