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 Lines: 16 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.