Thanks Todd, spot on!
Got rid of the mdns entries in nsswitch.conf and all is fine now.
Sorry to bother you all!
James
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From: Todd Lyons [tlyons@???]
Sent: 13 October 2012 17:50
To: James Mills
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] strange resolver issue
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Todd Lyons <tlyons@???> wrote:
>> Interestingly, if I update the PTR and A records for eeprobe on the authoritative DNS server, such that they
>> resolve to eeprobe.euroele.com (instead of local) then exim resolves these properly and doesn't
>> complain at all. As soon as a switch it back to .local, it complains again. It seems to be there's
>> something particular to the .local addresses that exim doesn't like resolving.
> Yes that is an interesting data point.
It's your Debian based system that is doing this, not exim. Solutions
are suggested in this article:
http://www.woofpuppy.com/2012/05/solving-local-dns-resolution-problems.html
...Todd
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