First to the maintainer of the 'host' package: problem seems not to be related to host, so you can close this bug. It looks like a mail system issue.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 13:37, Levi Bard wrote: > does not exist. If you're not sure "mymachine" is being resolved >correctly otherwise, try `ping mymachine`. Ok, 'ping MyMachine' works correctly. Thanks for the hint. I was simply not thinking of trying to ping ... :-] On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:47, Adam Conrad wrote: > Actually, "host" on my Potato machine behaves exactly the same. Are you > sure it hasn't always been like this? Ok. If potato has the same behavior (I have never tried that, when I was having potato) than this is the normal behavior and I was wrong. Thanks for the lesson. :-) And thanks for the getip code, works fine! It is not me that is querying the IP of my local machine. It must be a daemon or something. So, maybe 'host' is not the package I am looking for. I have looked through quite a portion of docs and tried to track this beast and came to the conclusion that some software wants to have my machine name translated into an IP address and this mechanism does not read /etc/hosts. So, I am looking for this package which SHOULD read /etc/hosts and did it in the past, but does not do it now. Thanks to your help I know now that the 'host' command is not the right place. After some more testing I have found out that this occures whenever sending a mail, no matter whereto (localhost, MyMachineName or somewhere else). My dial on demand is always invoked by DNS querying for MyMachine. I will do some more reading. Hopefully I can stop that by changing my exim.conf file somehow. Maybe a new exim version has introduced a default behavior that causes this. Bye, Steffen
