On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:16:55PM +0200, Stuart Brooks wrote:
> I have a problem which I am hoping one of you might have a solution to. I
> need to use sendmail to post to my personal e-mail address but I need to be
> able to do it without doing a DNS lookup if possible.
> 
> If I set up my /etc/resolv.conf file with my local dns, the mail is sent
> fine (understandably), but removing resolv.conf results in the following
> message being displayed when I run mailq:
> 
> (Deferred: Name server: cat.co.za. : host name lookup failure)
> 
> I have played around a bit with different entries in my /etc/hosts file
> without too much luck, has anyone got any ideas? Any help would be much
> appreciated?

I think it's because it tries to do some canonalization on it.
Check /usr/share/sendmail/README, for something like NODNS.
Maybe you need other options too ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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