Re: [Exim] Opinions sought: byname vs bydns for manualroute

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Author: Yann Golanski
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Opinions sought: byname vs bydns for manualroute
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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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