Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

[mo <mo777@gmx.net>]

Am 01.10.2016 um 14:51 schrieb Mark Fletcher:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:33:27PM +0200, mo wrote:
> > I sure appreciate to know the inner workings of it all :)
> > Good to know how avahi is involved here, this paints me a clearer picture :)
>
> I just want to correct one thing I said here, having read your other
> posts. In one of them you mentioned you have static routing mappings set
> up for your network machines in /etc/hosts. That is a perfectly valid
> setup, albeit it is not the default "Debian way" (by which I mean only
> that it is not how Debian comes configured out of the box, or more
> accurately out of the .iso) and not how I do it. What a pain if you buy
> a new computer to add to your network! But absolutely nothing invalid
> about it.

Well i'm using the static network config since quite some time, but i 
had planned to change over to DHCP... But for now it works ;)
(The work is not so hard, adding a machine to the network is done 
quickly with Debian ;) - My other machines use different Operating 
Systems, got FreeBSD and OpenBSD here to on the LAN, works like a charm :) )

> In this case, Avahi is probably *not* involved because exim4 gets an
> answer to the question of what IP the host name maps to, without having
> to consult it. But it *would be* involved if you did not have static
> mappings set up in /etc/hosts.

Good to know ;)

> Mark

Thanks Mark ;)

Greets

mo