[tech] Sending mail hangs on mermaid and mussel

[Duncan Sargeant]

To tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote on Sat January 29, at 18:10 +0800:
> Nick Bannon wrote on Sat January 29, at 17:20 +0800:
> > Sending mail hangs, with DNS timeouts ;
> > echo "test" | /usr/sbin/sendmail nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> 
> Its trying to reverse lookup 172.26.24..18 for some reason.
> 
> I have no idea why its doing this.

But who the fuck cares anyway?!?  This is sendmail we're talking about
here!

added this to /etc/hosts:
172.26.42.18	mussel.waix.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au	mussel.waix

and sendmail is all gay once again.

,dunc
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Duncan Sargeant
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