Our Exchange Server, which I'm going to be relaying the mail to, is hooked up to an Internet address that has a dynamic IP address. We have a host name which is constantly updated to point to the correct IP address. When editing the "/ETC/HOSTS" file as instructed in the Store and Forward article is it possible to use a "host name" in the first column of "/ETC/HOSTS" instead of using the IP address? Or do you have to use an IP address in the first column of the "HOSTS" file?
You can't use a hostname there -- the HOSTS file only lists IP/host combinations, where DNS resolution is bypassed (back in the old days, before DNS, the HOSTS file was the way to find *all* Internet hosts).
-Scott
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