Re: nsswitch
Jurvis LaSalle <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.opendarwin.general |
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| 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