On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:25:06PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | Kevin Buhr writes: | > There's a configuration option to Postfix to shut off DNS and use | > "gethostbyname" instead, but you don't want to set this: your "hosts" | > file entries would work, but you'd break email to most other domains | > (where the MX record is important). | | Seems to me that those of us using our ISPs smarthost would want to set | that, since our MTAs will never connect to any host but local ones and the | smarthost. At least for exim, it will only lookup the MX if you have a router that tells it to. If all you have is a smarthost router with the 'bydns_a' option, it will just do a single A RR lookup. -D -- The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. Jeremiah 17:9-10 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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