Re: sendmail: 'Unrecognized host name'

[James Vahn <jvahn@short.circuit.com>]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, konf@lwis.net wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make my sendmail work and it should work when I fix
> this problem:
> sendmail -bv something@domain.net returns something@domain.net...
> Unrecognized host name lyderis.com.

Apparently you are offline when this happens - sounds like something is
preventing a name lookup. If this is indeed the case and not abnormal,
remove "dns" from /etc/mail/service.switch .. Otherwise, maybe you could
provide more info by posting your sendmail.mc (minus the comments).