Re: [LI] sendmail

[V S Sai Satish <saisat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Check your switch file (/etc/nsswitch.conf) to see the order of services it
uses to resolve the address (ex: dns, files, NIS). For ur case, change it to
look for file (/etc/host) first, DNS & NIS later.
Also, I think the suntax of /etc/hosts is

<internet address>	<official host name>	<alias>

Also, since the default time sendmail polls at queue for resolution is 4h
so try force-flushing the queue with sendmail -q0

HTH
Sai


> 
> Dear Listers,
> 	I have connected two machines on a TCP/IP network. It runs on a
> simple hostfile mech.. ie /etc/hosts which looks like this
> 
> 192.168.166.1 lux 	lux.foo.edu
> 192.168.166.2 brutus	brutus.foo.edu
> 
> I have no problem in pinging or telnetting from lux to brutus or
> vice-versa and socket based apps run fine.
> 
> I have sendmail running on brutus but if i send a mail to someone at lux
> $mail goofy@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> the mail stays in the mail queue and sendmail -bp (after a while) shows
> that the queue hasn't been flushed . The status is "Deferred:could not
> lookup hostname"
> 
> In the sendmail.cf file I have unremarked the hostfile=entry.
> 
> am I missing out on something very basic ? What HOWTOs/man pages should i
> look into ? I have gone thru the Mail-HOWTO and sendmail man pages.
> 
> Regards
> Shourya
> 
> 
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