Re: [Exim] Long lookup time

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: Marcin Owsiany, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Long lookup time
On 2000-11-06 at 13:38 +0100, Marcin Owsiany gifted us with:
> host in host_lookup? yes (*)
> looking up host name for 149.156.124.14
> IP address lookup yielded plus.ds14.agh.edu.pl
>
> <<<< there is a long (about 1 minute) pause here >>>>
>
> Actual local interface address is 127.0.0.1
> Actual local interface address is 213.25.173.230


So pause is when finding local interfaces ...

> I have
> host_lookup = *
> host_accept_relay = localhost:213.25.173.224/24:*.pl
> in /etc/exim.conf


On 2000-11-06 at 15:51 +0100, Marcin Owsiany gifted us with:
> No wonder that nameservers don't feel like replying to that querries.
> Apparently Debian's exim was compiled with IPv6 support :-\ Aliasing
> net-pf-10 to off didn't help.



This may be a silly question, but if your OS has IPv6 support, you _do_
have an IPv6 entry for localhost in /etc/hosts, yes?

::1         localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost
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