On Wednesday 14 July 2004 14:05, Alexander Dalloz wrote: [...] > >Of course, if Philippe did give his Sendmail a hostname which is not >resolvable, neither by the hosts file nor a DNS, his MTA will not > work proper. So I requested him to paste the results from "sendmail > -bt -d0.12 < /dev/null" to get closer to his configuration. > >Alexander All of which makes sense (I think, I'm having trouble with he "internal" status of AAA yet) To me, not having that AAA listed as an alias in his hosts file means that AAA is not locally resolvable, which will force a dns query. And of course the external dns has no knowledge of a domain named AAA. As that adds a timeout before any action is taken, there will be a huge lag in actually getting the mailer to do anything constructive, like reporting an error. At least thats my line of reasoning. I think maybe we're talking oranges and apples here to a certain extent. :-) -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
