Re: [Exim] Need Exim to ask hosts file before asking my DNS

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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Need Exim to ask hosts file before asking my DNS
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:31:34PM +0200, Sherif Mohamad wrote:
> not the virtual one (behind the firewall), it used gethostbyname to get the
> MX of the domain, so it got the host name, but when trying to get the IP of


NO!

IT DIDN'T.

You can't get MX records from gethostbyname(). It is a host lookup function.

If you're doing MX lookups, you won't be using the hosts file.

I don't know how I can explain this more clearly a third time...

MBM

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