Thanks for the responses,

I have got a little closer, I have created a new sendmail.cf file using

FEATURE(nodns)  - which the manpage does seem to indicate is a noop and ...
FEATURE(domaintable, hash /etc/domaintable)

I then created a domaintable, and domaintable.db using makemap and now it
seems to resolve the correct ip address but leaves me with the following
message.

(host map: lookup (196.33.33.51): deferred)
               stuartb@cat.co.za

It appears to have resolved the domain name to an ip address, but gets stuck
there. I remember someone mentioning something about MX records?? but that
doesn't mean an awful lot to me. I am still searching though:) Anyone got
any ideas?

Thanks
 Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rmcm@compsoft.com.au [mailto:rmcm@compsoft.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:55 PM
> To: Stuart Brooks; netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: sendmail question
>
>
> I think NODNS may be a noop in recent sendmails - try configuring
> /etc/nsswitch.conf to use files and check that all interfaces used by
> sendmail are in /etc/hosts.
>
> Manuel Bouyer writes:
>  > 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 ...
>  >
>  > --
>  > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.
> Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
>  > --
>
> --
> Rex McMaster
>