Re: exim woes

[Stephen Gran <gashuffer09@home.com>]

Just a follow up - When I re-read my original message, I 
realized that I was a bit unclear.  What I am hoping to 
discover is why exim finds an apparently bad IP for my 
smarthost when I send messages to some servers.  It looks to 
me like some kind of DNS issue, although I'm not sure, as
I'm still fairly new to all this - I changed over from 
Windows around Christmas, and I'm teaching myself things as
I go.  If it is a bad DNS lookup, how could I prevent it, and
does anyone know why it's happening?  I have two DNS sites 
provided by my ISP, and I suppose I could comment one out,
or I could set exim to use the physical IP as the smarthost,
rather than the domain name (what I mean is use the numbers
rather than the letters, if you see what I mean), although
both of these seem to me to be steps that reduce overall
functionality rather than increase it - if my smarthost for
whatever reason changes it's physical address but keeps the 
domain name the same, I lose mail.  If I comment out a DNS
site, and the other one is out of sync, I have a hard time 
finding sites.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

By the way - I would like to thank everyone on this list.
Just reading through the mails (even the ones that don't
address issues I'm currently having a problem with) has 
taught me a lot about the way Debian and Linux order and
run things.  It may have been the best Christmas present
I've given myself - a computer that doesn't freeze, and a
list of helpful, polite people willing to be tech support.
Thanks again.