Please help with sendmail problem

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

You've got one problem here because union.ne.mediaone.net is a valid 
mediaone host name. I strongly suggest that you name the hosts on your 
internal net with a different domain, such as horne.net or something.
Your sendmail.cw file is used for host forwarding.
Checkout  http://www.sendmail.org/ for tips and faqs. 
Bill Horne wrote:
> Thanks for reading this: I'm having a problem with sendmail and need help.
> 
> I've got an entry in my /etc/hosts file for a machine on my home network, e.g
> .,
> 
> 10.50.50.72   union.ne.mediaone.net
> 
> Also, in the /etc/hosts.conf file, the entry is "order hosts,bind".
> 
> However, sendmail, when trying to deliver mail to a user on union.ne.mediaone
> .net, is doing a dns lookup *before* checking the hosts file, and is obtainin
> g ancorrect address that has not yet aged off mediaone's nameservers.
> 
> How do I force sendmail to check the /etc/hosts file first?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Bill Horne
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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