ok would the postfix file main.cf be like this inet_interfaces = 172.31.101.70, 127.0.0.1
Brian On Tuesday 08 June 2004 07:32, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:30 PM -0400 2004-06-07, Brian York wrote: > > Would their be any performance loss by having mailman send through the > > ip address of eth0 instead of the loopback? > > Using eth0 instead of lo0 will result in real packets being > generated and sent out the interface, and then coming back in. This > could run foul of firewall rules, network stack configuration, DNS > configuration issues, etc.... Using eth0 would also be less > portable, and if you were to move the lists to another machine, you'd > have to make more configuration changes to get them working again -- > as opposed to putting a numeric 127.0.0.1 in your configuration > instead. > > Generally speaking, if you can help it, you want to use lo0. > > Using eth0 instead won't necessarily hurt your performance on a > medium or small-size list (it could hurt on a big list, depending on > what other traffic the machine is doing), but it could potentially > result in a lot of other problems that may be difficult to debug, > etc.... ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
