On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:32 +0200, Victoriano Giralt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Steve wrote: > > I'll have to live with the waste of bandwidth looking up local clients > > has on the network. It's a small cost value, but an unnecessary one and > > it really should be more configurable than on or off. There needs to be > > a way to make sane exemptions. > Well... > Postfix supposes a properly configured network underneath, and for years > on end I have been teaching that the best oil for any IP network is a > properly configured name resolution, be it /etc/hosts (difficult to > scale) or DNS. If you have a network of a few hosts your problem is > easily solved by a few lines in /etc/hosts. If it is a big one, your are > only asking for trouble refusing to configure local DNS service. > > To me that is easier thn giving newbees another opportunity to shoot > themselves on their feet. > > - -- > Victoriano Giralt > Systems Manager > Central ICT Services > University of Malaga > SPAIN > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFKEoqvV6+mDjj1PTgRA+tmAJ0di7qbF78tw3zavJLPkQglFbWWqgCgpRTF > 2WZIM/bh2779Sr8P4ldcmMI= > =v4b8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
It's already in the hosts files - that was the first place I looked when this broke out. Nothing else on the box is stupid enough to look out to DNS for local queries. It's wierd that it only happens with reverse lookups from Postfix. I can't see why nothing else does this, just postfix and PTR.
