Sendmail Question (OT)

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> network - previously these were sending mail out our SMTP gateway (out
> of the network to the DMZ and then back in) so i enabled SMTP on the
> home server for each LAN and now wish to get sendmail to send directly
> to these home servers on an NT4 network with no DNS and private IP subnets.
>
> I modified the mailtertable to
> domain1.com.au                        SMTP:10.1.10.4
>
> But Sendmail always compains it cann find the host in DNS, have tried
> making a hosts entry too, but still no joy.

What about putting those in your local host file, so there is a hostname
and point to that ?

> I just want to forward all outbound mail to 1 smtp server on the same
> LAN, we have no DNS, we have only hostnames.
>
> Could anyone offer me any tips?

I would try /etc/hosts

Bye,
Raymond.