Re: Exim and SMTP on an internet gateway

[Jens Grivolla <j-news2002-11@grivolla.de>]

Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> writes:

> Note that since 10.0.0.2 will fail MX lookups, you'll
> want to specify this route as 10.0.0.2 byname in that section, rather 
> than bydns_a.

AFAIR bydns_a uses DNS to look up the corresponding A record, not MX,
so it is almost the same as byname in most cases (when you specify the
host name).

However, you are absolutely correct that in order to use the IP
address directly, "byname" needs to be used.

Ciao,
   Jens