On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:11:08AM +0000, W B Hacker wrote: > 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.
Doesnt that contradict your previous statement? > > In fact I cant get it to look in /etc/hosts at all. > > Not a Linux mavin here, but what does 'route -n show' produce? The help for route, the version of route I have doesnt seem to like `show' , route -n prints the routing table, which isnt too exotic on any of my boxes, fairly standard stuff. Where does that come into it? Not to be adversarial, you seem a nice chap and you've answered questions from me in the past, albeit in a meta syntactic way that I found hard to grasp at the time but have since learned to be sound. I suspect Im still feeling the effects of last nights binge drinking, so feel free to hit me with the cluebat if Im missing something obvious. Cheers -- Pete -- ## 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/
