At 4/5/01 05:58 PM -0500, you wrote:
Hmmm ..... Wouldn't, then, this be an issue with using DHCP to assign the IP addresses to clients? I mean if I list static IPs for all the client machines on the Qube's hosts file, and they get different IP addresses, I would be back in the same boat. No?
No.What you are doing by listing the IP addresses in the /etc/hosts file is not assigning them to computers but only telling the Qube what the *name* of each address is. So, even if your computer is named joe.domain.com, a reverse-DNS query on its DHCP-assigned 192.168.0.10 IP will return ip-0-10.domain.com.
But the point is that it will return something, quickly, so your sendmail will not wait for 2 minutes.
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