Re: [exim-dev] Exim doesn't look in /etc/hosts when /etc/res…

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Auteur: Alain Williams
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Aan: Jörg Sommer
CC: exim-dev
Onderwerp: Re: [exim-dev] Exim doesn't look in /etc/hosts when /etc/resolv.conf empty
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a smarthost in my local network named server.localnet. It's name is
> resolvable via /etc/hosts; ping works. But there's no DNS server
> available, hence /etc/resolv.conf is empty. With this setting exim
> doesn't feed mails to the smarthost. See
> http://alioth.debian.org/~jo-guest/exim-failure-debug.out


What is in your file:
    /etc/nsswitch.conf


In your case it should contain the line:
    hosts:      files


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