Re: DNS lookup for localhost

2008-09-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Peter Rabbitson: > Wietse Venema wrote: > > Peter Rabbitson: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I encountered a weird behavior with Postfix when specifying > >> smtp:localhost as a transport destination. After long debugging, tcpdump > >> revealed that postfix directly asks for 'localhost.', > >> as specified in /

Re: DNS lookup for localhost

2008-09-23 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:52:01PM +0200, Peter Rabbitson wrote: > Wietse Venema wrote: > > Peter Rabbitson: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I encountered a weird behavior with Postfix when specifying > >> smtp:localhost as a transport destination. After long debugging, tcpdump > >> revealed that postfix direc

Re: DNS lookup for localhost

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Rabbitson
Wietse Venema wrote: > Peter Rabbitson: >> Hi, >> >> I encountered a weird behavior with Postfix when specifying >> smtp:localhost as a transport destination. After long debugging, tcpdump >> revealed that postfix directly asks for 'localhost.', >> as specified in /etc/hosts:search without first as

Re: DNS lookup for localhost

2008-09-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Peter Rabbitson: > Hi, > > I encountered a weird behavior with Postfix when specifying > smtp:localhost as a transport destination. After long debugging, tcpdump > revealed that postfix directly asks for 'localhost.', > as specified in /etc/hosts:search without first asking for 'localhost'. > Is t

Re: DNS lookup for localhost

2008-09-23 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:23:56PM +0200, Peter Rabbitson wrote: > I encountered a weird behavior with Postfix when specifying > smtp:localhost as a transport destination. After long debugging, tcpdump > revealed that postfix directly asks for 'localhost.', > as specified in /etc/hosts:search with

DNS lookup for localhost

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Rabbitson
Hi, I encountered a weird behavior with Postfix when specifying smtp:localhost as a transport destination. After long debugging, tcpdump revealed that postfix directly asks for 'localhost.', as specified in /etc/hosts:search without first asking for 'localhost'. Is this intended behavior, or is th