>> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send >> > email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that >> > host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway >> > to tell exim that if the DNS hostname lookup fails then to use the hosts table? >> >> Do you have this in /etc/host.conf? >> >> order hosts,bind >> >> this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named >> (or at least this is what I think it should do :)
Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't work, it look to me like exim and smail (which I have tried on my second machine) as just doing a DNS lookup and ignoring the /etc/host.conf file. I have configured both exim and smail using the debian config programs. and selected option 1, internet mail, as the other options don't seem to take into account if you are not connected to the internet, I think the problem is that my nameserver is just a cacheing name server and so doesn't do reverse lookups, Could this be the problem or should I reconfigre exim/smail using the config progam? If I reconfigure them using the config program which option should I use? Regards Graham >> -- >> || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer >> ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question >> ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer >> ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]