Wietse Venema schrieb:
That is a bug in your operating system.
That made me test all of them :)
I used several runs of "ping" against the hostname after including it
with two entries into /etc/hosts
Cannot use "getaddrinfo" ...
Solaris 8 and 9:
Only uses the first IP in /etc/hosts (with "hosts: files" in
/etc/nsswitch.conf)
Buggy, as you say.
AIX (AIX <hostname> 3 5 00C9FC9A4C00):
Only uses the first IP in /etc/hosts (with "hosts = local" in
/etc/netsvc.conf)
Buggy, as you say.
Linux (SuSE 9.3 and SuSE 10.3):
Only uses the first IP in /etc/hosts (with "hosts: files" in
/etc/nsswitch.conf)
Buggy, as you say.
Which OS is not buggy then?!?
When DNS is enabled, those ping-Tests work perfectly fine for all OS.
But, as i said we don´t have DNS everywhere :-(
Also, it seems that "smtp_fallback_relay" is only available for newer
versions - a short test on some hosts gave the following:
postconf smtp_fallback_relay
postconf: warning: smtp_fallback_relay: unknown parameter
Mostly, we seem to run "mail_version = 2.0.16"
Sad thing, but productive ...
It seems, we will not have redundant mail-relays on our DMZ servers.
:-(
Cannot have everything :)
Thanx for the information!
