>> > >> Do you have this in /etc/host.conf? >> > >> >> > >> order hosts,bind >> > >> >> > >> this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named >> > >> (or at least this is what I think it should do :) >> > >> > Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't work, it look >> > to me like exim and smail (which I have tried on my second machine) as just >> > doing a DNS lookup and ignoring the /etc/host.conf file. I have configured >> > both exim and smail using the debian config programs. and selected option 1, >> > internet mail, as the other options don't seem to take into account if you are >> > not connected to the internet, I think the problem is that my nameserver is >> > just a cacheing name server and so doesn't do reverse lookups, >> >> Why shouldn't a cache DNS server cache reverse lookup? Have you tried this? >> I'm asking this because I usually work in closed domains (i.e. no connection >> to the net) so I have to build my DNS server and don't use cache server that >> much.
well I have finally fixed this problem, I had to configure a full namserver as for some reason, a cacheing nameserver just didn't so the job, I even tried smail to see if it was a exim problem and the same thing happened. >> > Could this be the problem or should I reconfigre exim/smail using the config >> > progam? If I reconfigure them using the config program which option should I >> > use? >> >> Well, I don't know, sorry. I've just started playing with exim, and as you see >> (my msg to the list) I have my problems with it too. >> There doesn't seem to be a lot of exim expert these days. :( >> Sorry I can't be much help >> >> -- >> || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer >> ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question >> ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer >> ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
