On Tuesday 15 May 2001 16:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We are trying to configure mail on Linux without using DNS for name
> lookup.iam using mail command to send mail to a user on a different
> machine..
> this i want it to happen without using dns.i want the mail to refer the
> /etc/hosts for name resolution. i have made the necessary entries in
> /etc/hosts in all the systems on my intranet..
Although you can get by without a nameserver in most cases, when you send
mail, it may not work because the MTA might try looking up the mail server
(MX record) for the domain the mail is destined to. So it will fail. You
might be able to switch off this behavior on some mail servers, but I don't
know how. BTW, why are you so keen not to set up a nameserver ? It's a pretty
small job (esp. with djbdns). I guess by the time you get the docs to turn
off NS lookups for your mail server, you would be able to set up your
nameserver. :)
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