Re: [Exim] Re: Smarthost DNS timeout

Uhm, becuase exim has to look in the DNS to get its IP address from the
name?


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:

> Bart van Dommelen <b.dommel@???> wrote:
>
> > route_list = "* 212.54.64.155 bydns_a" should be route_list = "*
> > 212.54.64.155 byname"
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> FWIW, I sent the message again today with the above change to
> my exim.conf and this time the message went through. However, I
> still don't think that it ought to be neccesary to use the IP
> of the mailserver so I'm still interested in knowing why the
> DNS lookups fail when using the name of the mailserver.
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> Regards,
>
> Morten
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>

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