On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > Am 29.11.2012 06:57, schrieb Andy Brody: >>> Maybe the "host lookup issues" here will help >>> http://www.postfix.org/LINUX_README.html >> >> Thanks for the pointer. I'd seen that page, though, and "multi on" is >> already set in /etc/host.conf > > what about dnsmasq which is a very easy to setup dns-server > which can use /etc/hosts also as source for dns-answers? > > a dns-resolver is generally not a bad idea on a mailserver >
Right, that would definitely be an option. I was hoping to avoid it since I thought postfix would be able to handle the lookups itself. This mail server does not generally talk to the public Internet, hence the lack of DNS.
