bind, dns, and sendmail

[Kevin Darcy]

mgd wrote:

> I did not have an A record in domain.com.fwd. I put it in and now the  "host
> ns.domain.com" command works and resolves to my public IP. Does FreeBSD use
> the nsswitch..conf file?

According to some things I saw on the freebsd.org website, yes it does.

> I am just following FreeBSD convention with the two
> entries in /etc/hosts.

It's a convention to have the same entry in /etc/hosts twice????

> I am no further ahead, mail still keeps coming from
> @ns.domain.com.

Was that the original problem? Sounds like a sendmail configuration issue.


- Kevin