* Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@???> [20020820 20:29]: wrote:
> wash@??? (Odhiambo G. Washington) [Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:20
> AM]:
>
> > This is probably very trivial. I need to accept mail from local users and
> > even hosts I relay for even when my uplink is down (lookup fails).
> > In many cases when my upling fails, my server rejects (temporarily) saying
> > lookup failed.
> > Does disabling host_lookup suffice for this? Can I still retain recipient
> > vrf?
>
> Approach it from the other direction - have a caching only nameserver setup
> locally. and/or hardwire entries into /etc/hosts.
I have a fully fledged name server running on that box ;)
You are against that?
-Wash
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