On 23/01/02 dman did speaketh: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:39:17PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > | Hey people. > | > | I'm using exim as my mail server, and I'd like to use the mail server > | on my firewall/router to relay mail for my internal network. The only > | problem is the fact that the hostname of my firewall/router does not > | exist in DNS, so the smart-hosting fails. > | > | Is there a way to tell my local mail servers to skip DNS and > | basically, "shut up and use it"? > > add the name to /etc/hosts > or > use the IP instead of the name (in exim.conf)
I've tried both of those. It goes to DNS anyway. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
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