Re: [exim] Email DNS Issue

Pete McEvoy wrote:
> 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.

That part is expected.

> In fact I cant get it to look in /etc/hosts at all.
>
> --
> Pete

Not a Linux mavin here, but what does 'route -n show' produce?

Bill