Re: [exim] Exim suddenly starts panicing

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: John Squires
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim suddenly starts panicing
John Squires wrote:

> I'm maintaining a system that has Exim on it, that has been running fine
> for over a year. I didn't install it and don't really understand Exim,
> I just "inherited" it. Suddenly it stopped working and I see this in
> the exim_paniclog:
>
>
>
> 2005-07-08 13:21:52 unknown lookup type "127.0.0.1"
>


.....

> The log is just full of that error over and over. What could suddenly
> have caused this? Any clues?


Most probably an typo in your config. Check your config for something like

127.0.0.1; ....
         ^
That should most probably look like


127.0.0.1: ....
         ^
(colon vs. semicolon)


Nico