Re: Part time hosts file
Kev (klmitch@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 09 Oct 1998 21:06:15 EDT
> I think the problem may be more to do with DNS. Ping and telnet just
> require an IP address, and this can come from the hosts file, DNS/BIND or
> NIS (if you have that). However, sendmail needs to know which host is the
> mail server for "kitty", as it need not be kitty itself. So it does a DNS
> lookup, asking for the MX (mail exchanger) address record for kitty. If
> your DNS does not have an MX record configured for kitty, then you can't
> send mail to it.
no; if no MX record exists, then sendmail will attempt to send mail to
machine itself.
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