Re: nsswitch

Jurvis LaSalle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 4, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Winston Ford wrote:

> Having an issue where a webapp, postfixadmin, running on our webserver 
> machine, fails to lookup its own ip address when sending mail through 
> its locally running postfix.  The problem results in an inability to 
> send mail to our own mail accounts.  From outside the firewall, port 
> 25 maps to our mail server on 192.168.0.10, but from behind the 
> firewall, on the webserver, .20, the lookup for our outside ip fails.
>
> How would I setup nsswitch and etc/hosts so that the webserver machine 
> knows to lookup from file, first, before checking dns listing?  Once I 
> can tell it to lookup from file first, then I can map the outside ip 
> to our internal mail server on .10
>
> Make sense?
>
> any ideas appreciated.
>
> thx,
> W
>

read this- http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html .  Good luck using the 
netinfo tools from the CLI.  google should be more helpful with that 
part...

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle
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