erickson@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Erickson) (07/24/90)
I've seen the recent posts over getting a certain port of sendmail to use
a nameserver on A/UX. I'm sure of the port number, or the A/UX version no.
My problem is somewhat related. My domain, 'cc.edu', is not on the internet
(yet, that's coming hopefully soon...), but we are setting up a tcp/ip
network on campus. Our domain nameserver is an AT&T unix box, and it is
connected to our new A/UX box over ethernet. The A/UX box is a IIci
running A/UX 2.00, sendmail version 5.61. I was having problems getting
it to recognize other hosts on our network until I started spelling out
the full host.domain name in /etc/hosts (a little tip I picked up from this
group in the recent sendmail discussion - thanks, folks!). Now I want to
get sendmail to use the nameserver.
In the other discussion, people were talking about some "NAMED.BIND" option,
apparently to go in the sendmail.cf file(?) I didn't see anything like that
in our sendmail documentation.
We ordered the manual set that contains the networking guide, but I think it's
on backorder, and I'd like to get this done ASAP.
As a sidenote, our AT&T box is only running sendmail 5.59. Does anyone know
of a way to get that to look at the nameserver database? I think that even
though it's on the same machine, sendmail is still looking at the local
/etc/hosts file on the machine. (I'm not 100% sure on this, though).
Thanks
Dave
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