[ILUG] Sendmail and WINS

[Niall Walsh]

Braun Brelin wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I'm trying to configure a Fedora Core 3 system using sendmail.  The
>problem is that the customer only uses WINS, not DNS for name resolution. 
>This means that every time I try and send something via sendmail (i.e.
>/usr/bin/sendmail -v foo at bar.com) I get a host unknown error....
>
>How do I configure sendmail to *not* try and do host lookups via DNS? 
>There doesn't seem to be anything in the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file that
>pops out at me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Braun Brelin
>OpenApp
>  
>
Well I'm not certain it will work, but a quick google lead me to 
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-July/088685.html which 
suggests that changing your /etc/nsswitch.conf to read

hosts: files wins dns

and having the tools available to do wins lookups installed would mean 
that sendmail should lookup by WINS before DNS?

I'm not 100% certain this will provide everything sendmail needs and 
that it will use it, but I suspect it will?

Of course if you only need a couple of static addresses you could just 
edit /etc/hosts?

Niall