Pete McEvoy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:34:39AM +0000, W B Hacker wrote: >> If you have significant traffic from a specific host that commonly fails >> or times-out on DNS lookup, AND you otherwise feel you can 'trust' it, >> you can manually enter it in /etc/hosts, which is (normally) checked >> before making a (remote) DNS query. > > This isnt the case on any of the linux boxes I run exim on, exim does a > MX lookup first.
That part is expected. > In fact I cant get it to look in /etc/hosts at all. > > -- > Pete Not a Linux mavin here, but what does 'route -n show' produce? Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
