Kevin Falcone on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:27:17 -0500


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[PLUG] Re: sendmail "host not found" error


>>>>> "EC" == Eric Cunningham <st96d92z@drexel.edu> writes:

  EC> My question is, does sendmail require a valid DNS record to
  EC> operate correctly?  Should not sending an email directly to
  EC> user@ip_address work?  We currently do not have any DNS record
  EC> for this network.

If you want to send mail to a machine without a DNS entry, you have to
send to user@[ip.address.here]

-kevin

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