On Wed, 23 May 2007, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Mike Cardwell wrote: > > I don't think this is possible within Exim it's self. You're probably > > best off just sticking it in your hosts file. Eg /etc/hosts: > > > > 222.333.444.555 smtp1.mydomain.org > > I tried this some time ago, but apparently exim would still find the > internal ip as opposed to the one set in /etc/hosts. I was thinking > telling exim to use "gethostbyname()" would solve this, but I may be > wrong and it could break other things.
Yes, using gethostbyname would do what you want, but you will need a special router for this; you probably do not want to set it on the router that handles everything else. Alternatively, you could use a manualroute router to route the domain that resolves to smtp1.mydomain.org so that it routes directly to the IP. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
