At 10:16 AM 12/30/98 -0000, Brian S. Craigie wrote:
>
>Hi All.
>
>I've checked the FAQ and mailing list archive. The question "can I use qmail
>without DNS" was asked in 1997, but there is no reply in the archives.
>
>Can anyone tell me if qmail can be used [ on Solaris 2.x with NIS+ ] without
>using DNS, at least for the client machines? My real external email server
>uses the DNS server provided by my ISP, but I don't really have the time to
>mess about with DNS on the clients.
Yes. I have set it up on uucp leaf nodes that have no DNS.
The only DNS usage that is a fundamental part of qmail is qmail-remote and
that can be over-ridden with smtproutes or avoided altogether via a
virtualdomains solution like that mentioned in FAQ 2.3
(FWIW: the Makefile actually shows that there are only two /var/qmail/bin
files that use dns.lib. qmail-remote as just mentioned and tcp-env.)
Regards.
