Hi, I've a problem with Exim; I couldn't figure out what's wrong with my configuration, so I'm asking here for help...
My LAN consists of two hosts (both running Debian 2.2 with Exim): orion.sc (192.168.0.1), which is the Gateway and gryffindor.sc (192.168.0.2). orion should be the SMTP smarthost for gryffindor, it should forward mail To: *.sc (local mail) to these hosts and it should forward outgoing mail to another smarthost (on the internet). I don't have a local DNS server, the /etc/hosts on both hosts has these entries: 192.168.0.1 orion.sc orion 192.168.0.2 gryffindor.sc gryffindor I can reach the hosts with their names without problem. My router section in /etc/exim.conf on gryffindor looks like this: ###################################################################### # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # [...] # Send all mail to a smarthost smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* orion.sc byname" end I *wrote* "byname", which tells Exim to use gethostbyname() to find the IP address of orion and not "bydns_*".... BUT, Exim *still* makes DNS lookups for orion.sc, which is very annoying, 'cause this establishs a connection to the internet. It fixes the problem if i set the route_list to "* 192.168.0.1 byname" - but I don't understand why "* orion.sc byname" doesn't work. Well, it works, if I remove the default gateway on gryffindor pointing to orion, but sure that's not the solution. The router section on orion looks like this: ###################################################################### # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # [...] # Deliver mail to the local net via gethostbyname(), not via DNS lan: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "*.sc $domain byname" # Send all mail to a smarthost smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* smtprelay.t-online.de bydns_a" end Here's the same problem; Exim establishs a internet connection because of a DNS lookup. In both cases, the mail gets delivered correctly, but it should work without establishing a internet connection. Can somebody please tell me what am I missing? Thanks, moritz moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199