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 Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Tom Davidson wrote:

> The DNS lookup output is below as it was sent to stdout rather than stderr.


Yes, that's unfortunate, but that's what the resolver does when you turn
on it's debugging switch.

> I've checked for misconfigured DNS settings:
> /etc/resolv.conf is empty (ie. file exists and is zero bytes)
> hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf is set to files
>
> It couldn't be as simple as an empty resolv.conf could it?! :-(


Yes!

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