Re: [Exim] strange failure to lookup IP address

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tom Davidson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] strange failure to lookup IP address
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Tom Davidson wrote:

> 2003-07-09 07:24:08 19a8N6-0001Yj-00 mailrelay1 [10.93.227.166]: Connection
> refused
> 2003-07-09 07:24:08 19a8N6-0001Yj-00 mailrelay2 [10.93.227.167]: Connection
> refused
> 2003-07-09 07:24:08 19a8N6-0001Yj-00 == user.name@???
> <User.Name@???> R=to_internet T=remote_smtp_to_internet defer (-32):
> failed to lookup IP address for mailrelay3
>
> Since all the addresses are private, mailrelay1 to 4 are in the hosts file,


Odd that it can find 1 and 2 but not 3. Anything obviously different in
the hosts file?

> Looking at the docs for manualroute, it seems that there can be problems
> with getipnodebyname() on some systems - is Solaris 8 one of them?


I don't think so.

> And on that note, there is no "bydns" or "byname" option in the router;
> might a "byname" fix it?


You could try.

Otherwise, a test (when you can do it :-) with full debugging might be
enlightening.


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