sendmail and bind

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9r731u$gud at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Boex,Matthew W. <Matthew.Boex at cna.com> wrote:
>?  also, why doesn't dns fall back on the host file immediately ?

Sendmail can't use the host file, since it doesn't implement MX records.
So sendmail makes use of the DNS resolver directly, rather than going
through the generic system resolver.

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