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Quoth Philip Hazel on Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 14:40:24 +0000
> That's an interesting idea. There is, however, a snag. People use byname
> when they are disconnected from the Internet and their nameservers (e.g.
> for routing round a small private network). They may well have set up
> gethostbyname() _not_ to do DNS lookups. So while I think this could be
> useful, there must be a way of switching it off.
Hum, yeah didn't think of that.
> Hmm. How about the following:
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> Default: call gethostbyname(), if returns NULL, try DNS lookup
> byname just do gethostbyname()
> bydns just do DNS lookup
Yes, that makes sense and fits well within Exim's ``Do it your way''
design. It has my vote.
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