On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:33:27PM +0200, mo wrote: > > > > I sure appreciate to know the inner workings of it all :) > Good to know how avahi is involved here, this paints me a clearer picture :) >
I just want to correct one thing I said here, having read your other posts. In one of them you mentioned you have static routing mappings set up for your network machines in /etc/hosts. That is a perfectly valid setup, albeit it is not the default "Debian way" (by which I mean only that it is not how Debian comes configured out of the box, or more accurately out of the .iso) and not how I do it. What a pain if you buy a new computer to add to your network! But absolutely nothing invalid about it. In this case, Avahi is probably *not* involved because exim4 gets an answer to the question of what IP the host name maps to, without having to consult it. But it *would be* involved if you did not have static mappings set up in /etc/hosts. Mark
