On 2/01/15 02:03 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 23:44 +0000, John Horne wrote:
>
>> It seems that the server returning just the short hostname had the
>> following entry in the '/etc/nsswitch.conf' file:
>>
>> hosts: files dns myhostname
>>
>> If I remove the 'myhostname' entry (which doesn't exist on the working
>> server), then Exim correctly resolves the servers FQDN.
>
> Thanks for that. I never knew about /etc/nsswitch.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-resolv.library.html provides
a decent introduction to the name service switch (nsswitch) facility.
Or if you're using Solaris, man nsswitch.conf will show you.
James C. McPherson
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