On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:19:06AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| 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.
Hmm, what does
/etc/host.conf
say? Does it specify looking at DNS first, or /etc/hosts?
-D
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Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path.
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