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
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