"David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A.L.Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 19 November 1999 at 11:39:17 -0600
> >
> > 1. Qmail has stopped resolving anything in /etc/hosts. I find this very
> > bizare, as everything else on the system still seems to work fine with
> > /etc/hosts only entry's that have no corrosponding DNS entry (the
> > localhost<->127.0.0.1 maping failing for a smtproute to an alpha-pager
> > program was how I figured this out). /etc/host.conf is properly configured
> > (order hosts,bind ; multi on).
>
>qmail never did resolve anything via /etc/hosts; it uses DNS *only*.
>(This is another thing it does to avoid dependency on and insecurity
>due to use of the system libraries).
qmail gotcha #7:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#etc-hosts
-Dave
