msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) (02/22/89)
Can anyone help me with this? In a fairly recent posting of official fixes from Sun, there was a new sendmail/BIND setup. (1) Can I run this and get nameservice without riunning YP? (2) What's the difference between sendmail and sendmail.mx? Why would I not choose to run sendmail.mx? I am currently running sendmail 3.2 under SunOS 3.x. This is the distribution SunOS 3.x sendmail, with the Worm patch. Any reason not to upgrade to this new thingie? Thanks in advance. -- Mark Sirota - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu Bitnet: msir_ss@uordbv.bitnet UUCP: ...!rochester!ur-cc!msir
nowicki@rose.Sun.COM (Bill Nowicki) (02/25/89)
From: msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) Date: 21 Feb 89 23:18:11 GMT Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center Can anyone help me with this? In a fairly recent posting of official fixes from Sun, there was a new sendmail/BIND setup. ... Any reason not to upgrade to this new thingie? Of course I am biased, but please do give it a try. The version in uunet:~ftp/sun-fixes/ddn.tar.Z is essentially 5.59 plus the security fixes from 5.61 (but minus the bugs introduced in 5.61), some IDA changes (such as the pretty-printing of -bt output, multi-token classes, etc. that were in SunOS 4.0), and some performance and YP enhancements that Berkeley has not (yet?) adopted. This is the version that we run on our Arpanet gateway, which delivers about 10,000 messages a day throughout the Internet, and an internal mailing-list expanding machine that handles over 100,000 messages a day. So performance and relibility are emphasized over features. (1) Can I run this and get nameservice without running YP? If you are running SunOS 4.x simply install the shared libraries like libc_resolv.so.sun3 or .sun4 in that same directory. If not, you need to relink every program that uses gethostbyXXX (gee, that could be one reason why we did shared libraries :-). (2) What's the difference between sendmail and sendmail.mx? Why would I not choose to run sendmail.mx? sendmail.mx is linked with the resolver (and therefore can handle MX records) while sendmail is linked with the standard gethostbyXX. This is described in the README file. You are free to run sendmail.mx on any machine which has a name server runnning or /etc/resolv.conf file properly installed. Since this is not as easy to install as we like (yes, being worked on), if you have thousands of machines like us, you can just keep the released sendmail on most of your machines, but funnel all outgoing mail through a single gateway running sendmail.mx to localize the sendmail.cf customizations to a smaller number of machines. -- WIN