Philip Hazel rearranged electrons thusly:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > route_append:
> > driver=domainlist
> > transport=remote_smtp
> > route_list="* hydmr.bplnet.com byname"
> The only DNS lookup that that configuration will do is for hydmr.bplnet.com
> and then only if your operating system goes to the DNS from gethosbyname().
> You could prevent even that by using an IP address instead of the
> smarthost name.
Thanks Philip. So it's not necessary to disable dns in nsswitch.conf (it's a
dedicated mail gateway, so I can afford to do it - but disabling dns
altogether is (I suspect) not the way to go.
> [Note that the second router (lookuphost) will never be run, because the
> first one matches every domain.]
That was a sloppy cut and paste job. Realized this after I posted it :(
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