Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:104 comp.dcom.lans:1851 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 88 14:50:33 GMT References: <713@ncar.ucar.edu> <1469@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <1473@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <285@hal.UUCP> <729@ncar.ucar.edu> <286@hal.UUCP> <733@ncar.ucar.edu> <287@hal.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 13 > Point #1: You should be running the nameserver (at least caching) > on all your machines. No, you need not run the nameserver on all your machines. My sun3/50 is having enough trouble just running EMACS. What you want is to have a name server close by that you can call. You only need a resolver. > Point #2: Your C library functions should be compiled to use the > nameserver on all your machines. Your C library calls should be linked with the resolver code to make a query to a local name server. > Point #3: Your networking software (ftp, telnet, sendmail, etc) > should all be compiled using the libraries that use > the nameserver on all your machines. Ditto, resolver not server. Resolver is the client part of the domain system.