Sendmail does not accord to the hosts order in nsswitch.conf
Dear Friend,
My sendmail does not accord to the hosts order in solaris nsswitch.conf. Please let me elaborate in details. Thank you.
Setting:
solaris 9 /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: file [notfound=continue] ldap dns
sendmail 8.13.4 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts in /etc/hosts
host1, host2
hosts in ldap
host3
Testing result/problem
/usr/lib/sendmail can sendmail to user@host1 and user@host2, but it cannot email to user@host3. It complains that hosts unknown.
Setting 2: Then I remove 'dns' from /etc/nsswitch.conf:
hosts: files ldap
Testing result/problem
/usr/lib/sendmail can sendmail to user@host1 and user@host2, and also to user@host3. But sendmail cannot send email to external domain, such as user@sun.com, because dns is removed from nsswitch.conf file.
Setting 3: I change the order of files, ldap, dns in nsswitch.conf, but it is no luck.
I also test this in Redhat Linux AS 4, it is the same problem.
Do you ever meet the problem? I have been in the trouble for several weeks. Any hints are deeply appreciated!
Best regards,
Jacky
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ASKED:
September 5, 2008 2:00 AM
UPDATED:
October 3, 2008 4:07 AM
Answer Wiki:
I believe that I would use the following entries:
<pre>hosts: files ldap dns</pre>
Remove the <pre>[notfound=continue]</pre> part.
Put an entry into /etc/hosts for host 3.
hth
-j
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Dear j,
Thanks your answer.
The [notfound=continue] does not influence the result.
It can solve the problem to put host3 into /etc/hosts just as host2, but my final goal is to put all entry in ldap, rather than /etc/hosts.
Any other hints are appreciated greatly!
Best regards,
Jacky