Bug#118475: woody - problems with dns
First to the maintainer of the 'host' package: problem seems not to be
related to host, so you can close this bug. It looks like a mail
system issue.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 13:37, Levi Bard wrote:
> does not exist. If you're not sure "mymachine" is being resolved
>correctly otherwise, try `ping mymachine`.
Ok, 'ping MyMachine' works correctly. Thanks for the hint. I was simply
not thinking of trying to ping ... :-]
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:47, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Actually, "host" on my Potato machine behaves exactly the same. Are you
> sure it hasn't always been like this?
Ok. If potato has the same behavior (I have never tried that, when I was
having potato) than this is the normal behavior and I was wrong. Thanks
for the lesson. :-)
And thanks for the getip code, works fine!
It is not me that is querying the IP of my local machine. It must be a
daemon or something. So, maybe 'host' is not the package I am looking
for. I have looked through quite a portion of docs and tried to track
this beast and came to the conclusion that some software wants to have
my machine name translated into an IP address and this mechanism does
not read /etc/hosts. So, I am looking for this package which SHOULD read
/etc/hosts and did it in the past, but does not do it now. Thanks to
your help I know now that the 'host' command is not the right place.
After some more testing I have found out that this occures whenever
sending a mail, no matter whereto (localhost, MyMachineName or
somewhere else). My dial on demand is always invoked by DNS querying
for MyMachine. I will do some more reading. Hopefully I can stop that by
changing my exim.conf file somehow. Maybe a new exim version has
introduced a default behavior that causes this.
Bye, Steffen
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