Re: Sendmail Problems

[Thomas Apel <thomas.apel@gmx.net>]

John Forest wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 08:33:42AM +0530, Saisanthosh B wrote:
> > How do I prevent Sendmail (8.8.8) from doing a DNS lookup when sending an
> > e-mail. The Sendmail FAQ states that :
> >
> >     With version 8.8, you change the service switch file to omit
> >     "DNS" and use only NIS, files, and other map types as appropriate.
> >
> > I tried omitting DNS in "hosts" of  /etc/nsswitch.conf, but this does not
> > seem
> > to work. Temporarily, I have commented out the DNS lookup in sendmail.cf
> > file.
> > Am I doing the right thing my commenting the DNS lookup in cf file or is
> > there
> > any other solution for this (apart from recompiling sendmail source by
> > undefining NAMED_BIND)
> >
> The /etc/nsswitch.conf does work. [...]

I had the problem that sendmail used /etc/service.switch as default
service switch. I forced it to use /etc/nsswitch.conf with the following
entry in sendmail.mc:

	define(`confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE', `/etc/nsswitch.conf')dnl

Hope this helps,
Thomas