CHeck out your /etc/nsswitch.conf file and make sure the hosts file entry is
before the dns entry
-josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Trigg" <jtrigg@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [Exim] Exim and firewall problem
> I can't seem to come up with a productive Google query, so I'm asking
> here. I have a mail server behind a firewall. The firewall receives
> external requests for two IP addresses; one is used as NAT for the
> intranet and the other is the mail server. The firewall is configured
> to pass all requests for SERVER_IP port 25 to the server, but the server
> cannot access its own public IP address. I have configured the server's
> /etc/hosts file to resolve its public hostname to its intranet IP
> address, but exim is ignoring that. (Other software, such as ping, is
> not.) How do I convince exim to use the internal IP address when
> sending mail to its own domain?
>
> This is a FreeBSD 4.7 system; /etc/host.conf specifies hosts before
> bind.
>
> (Substituting a fake external IP address and example.net for the domain,
> exim running on mail.example.net is insisting on trying to contact
> 10.0.0.5, the IP address shown in DNS, rather than 192.168.1.2, the IP
> address shown in /etc/hosts.)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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