Mailscanner and DNS

[Ken A]

John Rudd wrote:

> 
> Yeah, the actual problem is that our mail servers have been hitting the 
> campus name servers rather hard, so we added 2 local name servers to the 
> same physical network as our mail servers.  But we're still seeing 
> queries go out to the campus name servers.
> 
> We probably ARE going to add caching name servers to the mail servers at 
> some point, but right now I'm more concerned with why the new 
> resolv.conf entries aren't being obeyed.  If it's that sendmail only 
> looks at resolv.conf at start-up, that makes a lot of sense ... and 
> hopefully that will fix it.
> 

You might also 'grep ServiceSwitchFile sendmail.cf' to see if that's 
involved.

Ken A.
Pacific.Net