Re: [Exim] Re: Smarthost DNS timeout

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Szerző: Dave C.
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Címzett: Morten Bo Johansen
CC: exim-users
Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Re: Smarthost DNS timeout
If the DNS servers you are using are flaky, you may want to consider
running a local caching-only nameserver on the same box exim is running
on (and setting resolv.conf to point at it), o possible on a different
box on the same LAN..

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Dave C. wrote:

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> Uhm, becuase exim has to look in the DNS to get its IP address from the
> name?
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> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
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> > Bart van Dommelen <b.dommel@???> wrote:
> >
> > > route_list = "* 212.54.64.155 bydns_a" should be route_list = "*
> > > 212.54.64.155 byname"
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Morten
> >
> >
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