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Applications don't access resolv.conf directly, your system resolver
library uses it - if one application doesn't work, its likely none
will.
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Fr?d?ri[iso-8859-1] c L . W . Meunier wrote:
> Hi. I'm using Exim as an SMTP with a dial-up connection on Linux
> 2.2.16. I started testing the option 'usepeerdns' of pppd(8) that
> writes up to two nameservers on /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Since I'm not
> using any ip-up scripts, I decided to make a symlink to
> /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> The problem is that Exim (and maybe other applications and servers, I
> don't know) don't seems to like resolv.conf being a symlink, and
> when I send a message it fails. The solution was to reverse it,
> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf being the symlink.
>
> Is there any reason to ignore /etc/resolv.conf when it's a symlink?
> Do other applications fail?
>
> Thanks.
>
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