Sendmail with NIS 1

[jaki]

Dear all,

I try to forward all mails for root to our Lotus Notes box here. I run AIX 5.2 system without DNS, only NIS is used for name resolution.

I now added my email adress to the .forward file in root's Homedir.

then i added an entry mydomain.com to the local hosts file.

with this configuration all mails are sent to the lotus notes mail account as wanted.

As i now want to configurer that for about 15 AIX systems, i added the mydomain.com entry to NIS database, and removed it from the local hosts file, as i dont want to have that hosts enty on every machine.

I'm able to ping "mydomain.com" from all machines, but if i try to send mails i get Error:
DSN: Host unknown (Name server: mydomain.com: host not found

If i put the entry again to local hosts it works again!

So: Is there any possibility to let sendmail use NIS for the name resolution ?

 

[Hammer]

Is it to do with netsvc.conf file?
Read about is here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...om.ibm.aix.doc/files/aixfiles/netsvc.conf.htm

 

[jaki]

Your'e right!

I added the following line to /etc/netsvc.conf :
hosts = nis, files

after that the name resolution did also work with sendmail.

Thanks for your help

jaki