Re: [Exim] dnslookup failing for shortened domains

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Chip Coldwell
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] dnslookup failing for shortened domains
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chip Coldwell wrote:

> What's happening is pretty clear: during evaluation of the router
> pre-conditions, host_find_bydns is called with qualify_single=0.
> Since "phys5" is not a top-level domain, this fails with
> HOST_NOT_FOUND, and the result is put in the cache, poisoning it for
> the later lookup with qualify_single=1.
>
> I consider this a bug.


I will investigate when time permits, and see whether I agree. :-)

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