prevent sendmail do DNS lookup


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Operating Systems AIX prevent sendmail do DNS lookup
# 1  
Old 02-24-2009
prevent sendmail do DNS lookup

Hello!

How do I prevent AIX sendmail from doing a DNS lookup prior sending the mail?

(we still need to have the DNS resolving on AIX level).

We are running AIX 6.1 and 5.3.

//sap4ever
# 2  
Old 02-25-2009
I think you will need to compile sendmail.cf using this feature

FEATURE(`nocanonify')
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Problems host name lookup failure sendmail

Hi I have a problem in sendmail Freebsd when sending emails to yahoo as an example, I get: Sep 5 10:05:43 local50 sm-mta: STARTTLS=client, error: connect failed=-1, SSL_error=1, errno=0, retry=-1 Sep 5 10:05:43 local50 sm-mta: STARTTLS=client: 43926:error:1407742E:SSL... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rickyarge92
3 Replies

2. What is on Your Mind?

DNS Lookup Tool Using DIG

Hi. Having a bit of quick fun putting some networking tools online. Here is a DNS Lookup tool. It's basically the DIG command line tool wrapped in forum formatting. If you want more features, please post here. I'm doing to make a few more network tools like this and move on to other... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Neo
1 Replies

3. Red Hat

DNS reverse lookup issue

Hi guys. Ok so let me lay out my configs. I can do a NSlookup from client to server BUT NOT a reverse lookup. DNS server: Optimus.jaydomain.com IP : 192.168.1.50 DNS Client: Megatron.jaydomain.com IP : 192.168.1.60 On Sever: # cat /etc/named.conf // // named.conf // // Provided... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Junaid Subhani
4 Replies

4. IP Networking

HOWTO: Linux multihomed dns client - reverse lookup

The following thread is closed: 133552-howto-linux-multihomed-dns-client (Sorry I am not allowed to post URLs) Therefore I write this append in an own thread. The HOWTO in the referenced thread helped me a lot and I only want to append how to make reverse lookup working for a local zone: ... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: scheruga
0 Replies

5. IP Networking

lookup ip address, subnet mask, gateway, and dns at same time

Is there a command that can lookup ip address, subnet mask, gateway, and dns all at the same. I know ifconfig can lookup ip address and subnet mask. I know route -n can lookup gateway. Not sure about a dns command. So I hope there is a way to lookup ip address, subnet mask, gateway, and dns all at... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
2 Replies

6. Solaris

DNS Lookup failure:

I am facing typical problem with apache as proxy. my solaris box was running with apache1.3, due to security issue i have updated to apache 2.2. I don't have any DNS set up onmy network. I was able to connect to internet apache 1.3 working as proxy server. http and https are working fine. when... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sns_sns
3 Replies

7. Programming

How to set DNS lookup type for getaddrinfo()?

Hi there, I'm trying to do an MX type lookup using getaddrinfo(), but I can't work out how to change the lookup type to MX from the standard A - can anybody tell me how to do this? Thanks very much John G (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: JohnGraham
3 Replies

8. Solaris

Sendmail through DNS?

Hello Guruz, There is a mailserver with IPrange, i could able to resolve it through DNS, nslookup <IP> Its resolving. But not pinging, port 25 is open for mailserver IP. But when i am sending mail, i am geting the below error :( dsn=x.x.x, stat=Host unknown (Name server:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bullz26
2 Replies

9. Solaris

Which lookup tool query both hosts and DNS server?

As i understand, host/nslookup/dig only query DNS server to resolve name to ip. ping can query both, but it seems if ping is blocked, ping won't return IP. traceroute can query both, but i am not able to test if traceroute is blocked, What is the result? Neither ping/traceroute is... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: honglus
3 Replies

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

[DNS] Reverse Lookup for 2 IP Addresses

Originally I had the server at home and on Comcast so I used dyndns.org for DNS. Once the server got a bit more popular, I leased a server at a colo facility. They set up the server name in their DNS so I didn't really have any reason to manage my own DNS. DynDNS was managing the domains and I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: BOFH
7 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question