On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:12, Gareth Clay wrote: > Ok - here's the problem. When I boot up, exim tries to do a DNS lookup for > willow.tachbrook.net. This name is in my /etc/hosts file - so you would > think that exim would be able to get the IP address for > willow.tachbrook.net from there. However, this doesn't happen and exim > keeps trying to reach my ISP's DNS server, which requires an internet > connection. So, diald brings up my ppp0 interface as it should and exim > tries to query my ISP's DNS servers. Obviously it gets no reply - because > willow.tachbrook.net is only meant to be a private hostname for use on my > private network, so it gives up and the ppp connection drops.
I have encountered exactly the same thing. Everytime exim is called it is doing this. You can run 'exim -bp' (give current queue). Even with an empty queue it is the same thing. I was able to stop this by setting option 'primary_hostname=MyMachine' in the exim.conf file, but now all remote messages are no longer delivered. See my mails earlier on this list. I have been trying to find out what all this is about, but has not come very fare except from getting some log files. What system are you running? I am using Debian woody with exim 3.32 This could as well be an issue of libc6 resolver. Can an exim developer comment on this perhaps? Bye, Steffen
