Re: [exim] Exim trying to send email to A record of recipien…

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Author: Graeme Fowler
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To: Exim-Users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim trying to send email to A record of recipient domain
On 9 Feb 2016, at 14:29, Konstantin Boyandin <lists@???> wrote:
> The above Exim behaviour has happened just few times. Nameservers'
> responses are being monitored 24/7 and they didn't show any quirks.


With the same granularity that Exim has? Are the resolvers the same in each case?

> Question: does Exim uses /etc/hosts records (as specified in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf ) before trying DNS resolution? Looks like it doesn’t.


Not for an MX record, no - there’s no way to indicate an MX in /etc/hosts.

It *might* drop back to that for A lookups, depending on the lookup order in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Graeme