reversed behavior with nsswitch.conf

[Alexander Leidinger]

Am Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:58:12 +0100
schrieb "Tim Dettloff" <dettloff at gmail.com>:

> One thing you have to remember about sendmail is that in most cases it
> has to use dns, as mx records cannot be specified in /etc/hosts.
> 
> See "sendmail specifics" http://www.sendmail.org/email-explained.html.

This isn't about sendmail and resolving MX records (and I agree that
you can't do it with /etc/hosts), it's about broken nsswitch behavior
which can be detected with e.g. sendmail and broken reverse DNS setups.

Bye,
Alexander.

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