Re: [Exim] strange failure to lookup IP address

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Aihe: Re: [Exim] strange failure to lookup IP address
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> 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?


There isn't as we use a common hosts file for all Sun boxen.

$ grep mailrelay /etc/inet/hosts
10.93.227.166   mailrelay1 vmcrelay01
10.93.227.167   mailrelay2 vmcrelay02
10.93.246.44    mailrelay3 vmcrelay03
10.93.246.45    mailrelay4 vmcrelay04


>
> > 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.


I'll schedule in another test and try a few more things.

But, umm... what does full debugging mean?
*he RTFMs* ahhh "-d+all"
I take it doesn't then fork into the background when specified with
-bd -q20m for example.

Tom
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