/ Phil Pennock <Phil.Pennock@???> was heard to say:
| > Changing hosts=localhost to hosts=127.0.0.1 fixed that problem and now
| > deliver works as expected.
|
| You'll have problems elsewhere, in other applications.
I'm a little confused. I made the change in exim.conf, how is that
going to have an effect on other applications?
| As an administrative matter, it's generally wise to have /etc/hosts
| contain a few essential items, eg:
| 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.MYEMPLOYER.com
I already have:
127.0.0.1 mercury localhost
| any then have your system look in /etc/hosts before performing DNS
| lookups. This will be controlled by things like:
| /etc/resolv.conf "lookup file bind" on BSDish systems
| /etc/nsswitch.conf "hosts: files dns" on SysV (including GNU/Linux) systems
Yep, I've got that too. The odd wrinkle seems to be my /etc/resolv.conf
which had some leftover things from the last time I was behind the firewall.
search east.MYEMPLOYER.com MYEMPLOYER.com
nameserver 24.216.219.12
Be seeing you,
norm
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