sendmail v8.8.8 with aix 4.3.2

sendmail v8.8.8 with aix 4.3.2

Post by Kevin Hun » Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:00:00



Since I have upgraded to aix4.3.2 I have been having the following problem:


Subject: test of
mail to outside my domain
.
Cc:



db3#

The message never gets delivered because sendmail can not resolve the
address.

I don't want sendmail to resolve the address, I just want it to forward the
message to my firewall.  I have the proper DR and DS commands to do this but
it still tries to resolve the address.

Any ideas?????

If I replace my sendmail image with the older versio 8.7 it still works.
--
Kevin H. Hunt

 
 
 

sendmail v8.8.8 with aix 4.3.2

Post by Horst Gal » Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:00:00



> Since I have upgraded to aix4.3.2 I have been having the following problem:


> Subject: test of
> mail to outside my domain
> .
> Cc:



> db3#

> The message never gets delivered because sendmail can not resolve the
> address.

> I don't want sendmail to resolve the address, I just want it to forward the
> message to my firewall.  I have the proper DR and DS commands to do this but
> it still tries to resolve the address.

> Any ideas?????

> If I replace my sendmail image with the older versio 8.7 it still works.
> --
> Kevin H. Hunt


Hi Kevin,

do you have a file /etc/netsvc.conf .
If not try it with the following enties:

  hosts = local
or
  hosts = local,bind

The first one uses only /etc/hosts for name-resolution.

I hope this helps

Best regards

Horst Gall

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