Murthy,
There is another solution to this - it's been discussed recently on this
mailing list.
For the DNS issue, first decide whether you need a full local DNS at all.
Maybe you just need to configure the hosts file to include your local
machines.
If you do run DNS then set up a full DNS configuration according to the
article in Linux Gazette or the "DNS and BIND" book.
Configure sendmail so that the SMTP mailer is defined as "expensive". That
causes sendmail not to send mail immediately but to wait for the next
connection. You can find references to this on the Web and a package that
does the config is available via the freshmeat web site.
Test your sendmail configuration using sendmail -bv username for every local
user. It should report the users as local and not cause a DNS lookup. If
not, you have a configuration error.
Iain Stevenson
on 2/10/00 7:31 PM, Murthy Raju at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My Sendmail seems to send DNS requests as soon as it receives any outbound
> mail, even though I only send all outbound mail to my ISp's SMTP server,
> which acts as a relay host. I connect every one hour or so for uploading
> mail to my ISP's SMTP server.
>
> I just want to set up Diald in a way that it does not start dialing when
> Sendmail sends such a request.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> with regards
> Murthy Raju
>
>
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