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Re: [cobalt-users] problems with Qube3 (was Macintosh, AppleShare IP Users)
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] problems with Qube3 (was Macintosh, AppleShare IP Users)
- From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Apr 5 07:17:03 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> > Sorry, I may have missed something, but if the SMTP issue is long delays,
> > reverse lookup is probably not working.
> > You can workaround this issue by putting the IP hostname in /etc/hosts
> > that way the resolver will respond to the SMTP request fast.
> > Gerald
> Do you mean adding it to the hosts table on the clients?
>
> I don't really want to go to every machine and manually change their hosts
> table if I can help it. There must be something I'm missing that would do
> the same thing, perhaps on my WINS server or my WinNT domain controller. If
> that's where I need to look then I'll pursue that.
>
No, just on the Qube3, add the IP to the /etc/hosts file. It's the Qube 3
sendmail
program that is looking for the IP->hostname resolution
Gerald