Re: [Exim] domainlist router query

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Alex King
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] domainlist router query
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Alex King wrote:

> What I am assuming, is that when exim does a byname lookup it is not
> distinguishing between temporary dns failures and an unknown host
> return, but that bydns_a does...


Correct. For byname it just calls gethostbyname(), which has no way of
making the distinction. It either returns a host, or it returns NULL.

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