on 13/3/2000 12:00 PM, PICCINALI Jean-Guillaume shot down the bitstream:
> If I try to send a mail from yellow to cyan :
> mail root@cyan ------->
> host name lookup failure !
>
> Precision :
> I can do ping, telnet , ftp but no mail :-| ?
> By the way, I use neither NIS nor DNS !
Voilą! Sendmail doesn't use your hosts file unless explicitly compiled to
do so. It relies on DNS for canonification. No DNS = no mail.
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