sendmail does NOT use secondary nameserver
base60
nobody at whitehouse.com
Thu Dec 1 02:15:00 UTC 2005
You probably want to create a caching DNS server on the system running
sendmail.
It's pretty well documented. Check w/google.
Claus van de Vlierd wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> a) in case our primary nameserver works rather slowly
> our "sendmail" does NOT automatically use the secondary nameserver.
>
> BUT : in the mailer's "/etc/resolv.conf" there are both
> IP-addresses of the prim. and sec. nameserver
> (by the way : our browsers have no problems to switch to the sec.
> nameserver in those cases) .
>
> b) can anyone give me "a helping hand" how to make sure that
> "sendmail" uses for its DNS-queries on port 53 the sec. nameserver
> in case our prim. nameserver fails ?!
> (perhaps with some refined "route-statments" in the attached
> Cisco-Router
> ?!
>
> c) thank your for any help !
>
> regards , Claus van de Vlierd
>
>
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