On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Steffen Evers wrote: > 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 had a thought. If you do NOT set primary_hostname, Exim will call the uname() function to find the name. If it then finds a name that is not fully qualified (that is, if there is no '.' in the name), Exim will call gethostbyname() in order to find the fully qualified name. (This is all documented under 'primary_hostname'). The gethostbyname() may be what is doing the DNS lookup. When you set primary_hostname explicitly, it won't do this. Exim really expects to operate with a fully qualified host name, because hosts on the Internet are supposed to have such names. > This could as well be an issue of libc6 resolver. Can an exim developer > comment on this perhaps? I'm afraid I'm the only Exim developer, so you'll have to make do with my comments... -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
