Re: looping - exim not recognising mx is to local machine

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Szerző: Philip Hazel
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Címzett: John Henders
CC: exim-users, phil
Tárgy: Re: looping - exim not recognising mx is to local machine
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, John Henders wrote:

> On Mar 29, Philip Blundell <phil@???> wrote:


> > Have you tried using the "local_interfaces" option to tell the offending
> > host what its own IP addresses are? It could be that the code to find
> > this out on BSDI is broken.
> >
>
> That did it. Both the machines had multiple interfaces configured on a
> seperate class C from the local machine's ip address, so I guess that
> was what was confusing exim. I put the host's ip address in
> local_interfaces and now it does the right thing.


I have been sent some patches for the code for finding out the addresses
of the local interfaces, applicable to BSD systems. I haven't yet had
time to look at it, but it may be that it will fix the problem.

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