Doug Crompton on 24 Jul 2007 16:32:36 -0000


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RE: [PLUG] DNS question


Thanks Mark, yes that was the problem. Restarting sendmail must re-read
resolv.conf and all was well.

Doug

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Mark Baker wrote:

> Hello Doug,
>
> In my experience sendmail tends to read the system configuration when it
> starts and keep them in memory.  I would completely stop sendmail and
> start it again.
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Crompton [mailto:doug@crompton.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:36 AM
> > To: Phila Linux Users Group
> > Subject: [PLUG] DNS question
> >
> >
> > I am seetting up a new system and moving services to it. It is
> functioning
> > fine except for the following issue.
> >
> > I moved all DNS to system 2 and set resolve.conf on system 1 to point
> to
> > the IP of system 2. nslookup on system 1 now does lookups fine using
> the
> > default system 2 DNS.
> >
> > Ok now I stop bind on system 1. nslookup still work fine. BUT mail
> stops
> > (which is still on system 1) because it cannot reslove domains.
> >
> > Does sendmail use a different map to dns than resolve.conf???
> >
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
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