On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Sascha E. Pollok wrote:
> >Hmm. Just had a thought. I suppose if you said "byname" and it did a DNS
> >lookup that timed out, gethostbyname() might yield "no such host".
>
> That might exactly be the thing. The customer.route file looks e.g.
> like this:
>
> *.test.de mail.test.de byname
>
> Might the host_find_failed option help anyway?
Yes, it would help. Set it to "defer" instead of "freeze".
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