Re: FQDN via DHCP, then used in exim4
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Klaus Doering
<klaus.doering999@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that in a different setting, where there are many users,
> hundreds of emails per minute and other mission-critical stuff is going
> on, one needs to design the infrastructure a lot more carefully.
>
As a thumb rule, any system providing a service (e.g. email) ought to
be configured with static IP. With email, you also need a DNS with a
MX resolving to the hostname/IP number of your email server.
>
> So, the initial question remains unanswered: what happens to the
> information provided by the dhcp server as reported in the lease file in
> /var/lib/dhcp, how is it accessed, and is there a way to make exim4 use
> it?
>
I use postfix, so cannot comment about exim. In postfix, to the best
of my understanding, there is no provision to get network parameter
information from dhclient files. I suspect the same is the case with
exim.
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Arun Khan
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