On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:43:51AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sluggers
>
> What happened next was that all internal SMTP mail (*nix <--> *nix) and
> (*nix <--> exchange) was failing because their was no DNS lookup
> available.
>
> Our internal server are NOT included in the ZONE file at optus, but they
> are defined in the /etc/hosts file.
>
> It appears that our sendmail was always attemping to lookup internal name
> using DNS rather that using the values specified in /etc/hosts,
> irrespective of the settings used.
>
I'm guessing you're using something like the following
define(`MAIL_HUB', `smtp:smtp.domain.com.au')dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:smtp.domain.com.au')dnl
IN your sendmail mc files. or you have
domain.com.au: smtp:smtp.domain.com.au
in your mailertable file.
The thing is even though you specifiy a host sendmail still trys to do an MX lookup on
it which would fail if you don't have any DNS. Solution is put square brackets around
the host name then it will deliver top it directly.eg
domain.com.au: smtp:[smtp.domain.com.au]
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