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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!dde!fll
- From: fll@dde.dk (Flemming Lau)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Host search path in subdomain?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.173047.16456@dde.dk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:30:47 GMT
- Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
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- And now for one more question which I shuld't be asking:
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- We are currently working on getting the nameserver to run in our organisation.
- And we have run into the following puzzling question:
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- Why does sendmail not like all other nice net-utilities use the res_search()
- routine to resolve a not fully qualified name?
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- Example:
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- Our domain is dde.dk
- We have a subdomain bqa.dde.dk
- There is a host Kurt in the dde.dk domain
- I can ping the name Kurt on a host in the bqa.dde.dk subdomain
- I can NOT mail a user on Kurt from the same host.
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- Sendmail.cf files insist on as they cannot find a CNAME for Kurt to
- define it as Kurt.bqa.dde.dk which does not exist. Whereas ping etc.
- will try Kurt.bqa.dde.dk, Kurt.dde.dk etc. and succeed.
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- Why is this and what do I do about it?
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- Thanks for any help!
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