On Sunday 05 October 2003 22:02, Peter Ruskin wrote: > /etc/hosts: > 192.168.0.3 peter.ruskin peter # Peter's linux/Windows box > 192.168.0.5 kroh.ruskin kroh # Liese's linux/Windows box
> /etc/nsswitch.conf: (never looked at this one) > hosts: files dns > from mail.log: > Oct 3 01:28:13 kroh postfix/qmgr[2084]: D2C2F90F9A: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=316, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 3 01:28:24 kroh postfix/smtp[4250]: D2C2F90F9A: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=11, > status=bounced (Name service error for name=peter.ruskin type=A: Host > not found) That's quite strange. Postfix has correctly resolved the machine name peter to peter.ruskin through the use of /etc/hosts - probably through a glibc call. My guess is that postfix is configured to specifically get the A record from DNS for security (rather than simply asking for an IP) which /etc/hosts does not provide. I haven't got time right now so I can't do it myself, but check postfix to see if you can turn off DNS checks. I think there's some sort of option to turn off canonifacation (or however you spell it ;-) which may fix your problem. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
