Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!oliveb!ames!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts
Message-ID: <713@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 88 16:44:25 GMT
Reply-To: woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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I want to modify sendmail to check the /etc/hosts file if a host name lookup
to the name server fails with a non-temporary error. 

1) Has anyone done this already, before I go and reinvent the wheel? 
2) I'm running a version of 5.58 hacked to work on a Sun-4. Does anyone know
   if vanilla 5.59 from Beserkeley will run on a Sun-4? Under SunOS4-3.2 or
   Sun OS 4.0? What does 5.59 buy me over 5.58? Is it worth the hassle
   to try and convert? These are related issues, because if I'm going to
   go in and hack the source, I'd just as soon start with the most up-to-date
   version that I can get to work without an excessive amount of work.

--Greg

P.S. If it matters, I'm running BIND 4.8 on a Sun-4/280, currently under
SunOS4-3.2 but soon to be upgraded to Sun OS4.0. This machine does not
run yellow pages.