On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 18:49, Marianne Taylor wrote: > On October 5, 2003 07:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > 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 > > I solved the same problem on my home network by appending the > following line to the main.cf in /etc/postfix directory. > > disable_dns_lookups = yes > > Hope this helps. > Bingo!! Thanks Marianne. I had just tried that but it didn't work (mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ended up in my postbox at A) because I'd added hostnames to mydestination. When I commented the mydestination entries it works as expected with "disable_dns_lookups = yes"
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