Author: Pete McEvoy Date: To: W B Hacker CC: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Email DNS Issue
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:34:39AM +0000, W B Hacker wrote: > If you have significant traffic from a specific host that commonly fails
> or times-out on DNS lookup, AND you otherwise feel you can 'trust' it,
> you can manually enter it in /etc/hosts, which is (normally) checked
> before making a (remote) DNS query.
This isnt the case on any of the linux boxes I run exim on, exim does a
MX lookup first.
In fact I cant get it to look in /etc/hosts at all.
