On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:23:35PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> ... and it is fixed by '/etc/rc.d.sendmail restart|reload'.

Is there any reason that you don't add that command to "/etc/ppp/ip-up"?

> Question:
> 1) why sendmail, once started, doesn't use updated /etc/resolv.conf?

Reading "/etc/resolv.conf" is (usually) managed by "libc" which never
rereads it for performance reasons.

> 2) is it possible to configure it to do this?

Not that I'm aware of.

An alternative solution would be to run a local caching nameserver
on your NetBSD and put "nameserver 127.0.0.1" into "/etc/resolv.conf".
You could even teach "/etc/ppp/ip-up" to write a new "named.conf"
which uses your ISP's nameservers as forwarders.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/