On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:53:53PM -0500, Shourya Sarcar wrote:
> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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"
Having the names in /etc/hosts is not good enough. You need to get
the nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf to know about lux and brutus.
One way to do this is to run your own named.
-Arun
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