>I think this is related--I noticed after assigning a new IP address to
>a local station and adding him to my /etc/hosts file that SMTP was just
>sitting there, as you observed. I submitted his address to
>corc.xyvh@wificom.com and after the address had propagated to the DNS, the
>messages were sent out.
>
>Could it be that sendmail/smail do not use /etc/hosts to resolve addresses
>and rely only on the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? If so, how does one
>deal with a network which is unconnected to the Internet?
sendmail can be configured at compile time to require DNS lookups for
all addresses. I'm not sure if this can be defeated in any way other than
recompiling it.
73,
John N8UR
xmax@napsindo.net