On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:32:14PM +1100, Greg Wilson wrote:
> I've been testing Postifx for some solutions.......
>
> One attempt was to make 2 entries with the same host name
> in /etc/hosts
>
> e.g
> 10.222.100.1 exchange.mydomain.local exchange
> 10.333.200.2 exchange.mydomain.local exchange
IPv5? I haven't seen many of those quads>255. :)
> Then changed the transport map to
>
> mydomain.local smtp:[exchange.mydomain.local]
>
> My info is that the square brackets stop Postifix doing mx
> record lookups.
And instead, do a DNS "A" lookup. To use hosts(5) resolution
specify smtp_host_lookup to include "native":
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_host_lookup
> This didn't work and I don't know why. It works fine with
> an IP address in the square brackets and the Linux box can
> resolve exchange.mydoamin.local to an IP.
By default smtp_host_lookup is "dns" only.
> Any suggestions?
Also, please don't top-post your replies. Your MUA badly mangled
quoting in the rest of the thread so I didn't bother to try to fix
that. Thanks.
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