Re: Exim Problem

[Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <graham.lillico@gecm.com>]

>> > >> Do you have this in /etc/host.conf?
>> > >> 
>> > >> order hosts,bind
>> > >> 
>> > >> this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named
>> > >> (or at least this is what I think it should do :)
>> > 
>> > Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't work, it
look
>> > to me like exim and smail (which I have tried on my second machine) as
just
>> > doing a DNS lookup and ignoring the /etc/host.conf file.  I have
configured
>> > both exim and smail using the debian config programs. and selected option
1,
>> > internet mail, as the other options don't seem to take into account if you
are
>> > not connected to the internet,  I think the problem is that my nameserver
is
>> > just a cacheing name server and so doesn't do reverse lookups,  
>> 
>> Why shouldn't a cache DNS server cache reverse lookup? Have you tried this?
>> I'm asking this because I usually work in closed domains (i.e. no connection
>> to the net) so I have to build my DNS server and don't use cache server that
>> much.

well I have finally fixed this problem, I had to configure a full namserver as
for some reason, a cacheing nameserver just didn't so the job, I even tried
smail to see if it was a exim problem and the same thing happened.
 
>> > Could this be the problem or should I reconfigre exim/smail using the
config
>> > progam?  If I reconfigure them using the config program which option
should I
>> > use?
>> 
>> Well, I don't know, sorry. I've just started playing with exim, and as you
see
>> (my msg to the list) I have my problems with it too.
>> There doesn't seem to be a lot of exim expert these days. :(
>> Sorry I can't be much help
>> 
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