reversed behavior with nsswitch.conf

[Joel Gunderson]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:

>Am Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:09:21 -0500
>schrieb Foo <foo at virtual-voodoo.com>:
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>>Hi,
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>>I have run into this as well.  I am a student in a class that required 
>>us to set up sendmail in an environment where we don't have access to 
>>the local DNS, so all our resolution is done via /etc/hosts.  I had to 
>>be able to send email between our three *nix boxes, and it kept breaking 
>>on the DNS resolution. Initially, I used mailertable entries to 
>>circumvent the issue since every other strategy I found to turn off DNS 
>>resolution for sendmail didn't work.  However, upon reading this, I 
>>switched the order of the
>>"hosts" settings in nsswitch.conf and got rid of the mailertable entries 
>>and it worked.  So yes, I have run into the issue as well.  I am using 
>>6.0-RELEASE.
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>Is it possible for you to update to 6.1-BETA2? Either by doing a binary
>update or by updating /usr/src and doing a build/install?
>
>I haven't tested it, but someone suggested in private mail to use
>"hosts: files [success=return] dns" (he told me this is the way linux
>distributions are doing this) which suggests that the documented
>default criteria in nsswitch.conf(5) doesn't work. Can you test if this
>work-around works?
>
>Bye,
>Alexander.
>
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I tried the "hosts: files [success=return] dns" in nsswitch, but it 
didn't work.  I'll have to get back to you on the upgrade thing...if for 
some reason the machine flips out on the update I don't have time to fix 
it before checkoffs.  Plus my group members would kill me.

-Joel