"Victor Duchovni" <victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote in message news:20091105214246.gd27...@np305c2n2.ms.com... > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:27:33PM -0500, Daniel L'Hommedieu wrote: > >> Your postfix >> server will use DNS to query for the MX record for example.com, which >> will >> return mx.example.com. Ordinarily it would then query DNS for the "A" >> record for mx.example.com, but if you configure nsswitch.com to query >> files >> before DNS, you can put mx.example.com into the /etc/hosts file, with the >> desired IP address. > > Much easier to just use a transport(5) table entry. If one is willing > to implement static overrides (rather than redirect DNS queries to an > alternate source), the transport(5) table is by far the simplest choice.
I did get the transport maps working, so that is already a step in the right direction. And I agree, it is better than maintaining IPs by hand in the hosts file. So this is a good fail-safe if I can't get the jail working as I am hoping / expecting it to work.... Thanks, Eric
