On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:37:52PM -0800, Andy Brody wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > Terry Gilsenan: > >> > In /etc/host.conf: > >> > multi on > > > > See: > > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_host_lookup > > Thanks. My understanding was smtp_host_lookup has no effect when > disable_dns_lookups is enabled. Is that incorrect? Should I not be > using disable_dns_lookups?
The largely obsolete "disable_dns_lookups" parameter merely disables DNS MX lookups. It does not disable DNS name -> address lookups. You almost never need to set this parameter. -- Viktor.