Re: exim and /etc/hosts

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

George Bonser said:
> Once it finds it in /etc/hosts it should stop looking.

Well, yes...  That's what I was expecting, at least, but it's not what I see
happening.

> Make sure the
> hostname you have listed in the exim router is the same as the FIRST
> hostname you have listed in /etc/hosts

Check.  exim.conf has

route_list = "* genma byname"

and the relevant line from /etc/hosts reads

10.0.0.101      genma           genma.dojo

> Also make sure the /etc/host.conf file looks like:
> 
> order hosts,bind
> multi on

Yep.

> And /etc/nsswitch.conf like for hosts: looks like:
> 
> hosts:          files dns
> 
> Make sure files comes before dns

Files is before DNS.

Any other ideas?

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