Re: [Exim] failing address lookup

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Phil Chambers
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] failing address lookup
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Phil Chambers wrote:

> But this is a service machine and the address lookup works 99.99% of
> the time.


Then I suspect this is not an Exim problem.

> I have another router and transport which use route_data to carry the
> addresses and have never seen this type of lookup problem. Since I
> have the address in both /etc/hosts and the DNS and I have "hosts:
> files dns" in nsswitch.conf I am at a loss as to why it would ever
> fail.


It does seem weird.


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