Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:106 comp.dcom.lans:1853 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!rose!nowicki From: nowicki%rose@Sun.COM (Bill Nowicki) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID: <69882@sun.uucp> Date: 23 Sep 88 18:47:13 GMT References: <713@ncar.ucar.edu> <1469@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <5589@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 12 > >About half the time when we try such a mail address, we get back an error > >from the other machine's sendmail saying "I refuse to talk to myself" and > >the user's mail drops on the floor one more time! I fixed this in SunOS sendmail by just adding all the IP addresses to the "w" class. You might have to shuffle around some of the lines in your sendmail.cf to make this work, but it has the advantage that a single sendmail.cf runs on all your machines; no need to hardwire in the addresses. Note the IDA enhancement that allows multi-token class matches needs to also be incorporated for this to work. -- WIN