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

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:29:17PM -0500, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> >>>>> "AB" == Alex Barylo <hash1024@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>   AB> --- Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 
>   >> If you want to send mail to a machine without a DNS
>   >> entry, you have to
>   >> send to user@[ip.address.here]
> 
>   AB> That's not the only way:
>   AB> - add appropriate entry to /etc/hosts
>   AB> - add to sendmail.mc:
> 
> How does this help me if:
> 
> I'm on blue.seas.upenn.edu and I want to send mail to 
> myself@an.ip.address.elsewhere?
> 
> I guess I have to redo sendmail on blue?  Sorry, I don't have root on
> the UPenn servers.  Yours is useful if you want to be able to send
> mail to kevinfal@red without sendmail doing a DNS lookup, just
> trusting /etc/hosts to know that red is red.seas.upenn.edu and the IP.
> Mine is useful when you can't tweak the current machine's sendmail
> config, and just want to make sure that the remote machine can accept
> mail.

If it's just a couple such addresses, don't be a hero, just put an
entry in /etc/aliases. Or, if you don't have root even on your own
machine (then what are you doing at all?), an entry in your MUA's
address book.

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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