Thanks Todd, spot on! Got rid of the mdns entries in nsswitch.conf and all is fine now.
Sorry to bother you all! James ________________________________________ From: Todd Lyons [[email protected]] Sent: 13 October 2012 17:50 To: James Mills Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [exim] strange resolver issue On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Todd Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: >> Interestingly, if I update the PTR and A records for eeprobe on the >> authoritative DNS server, such that they >> resolve to eeprobe.euroele.com (instead of local) then exim resolves these >> properly and doesn't >> complain at all. As soon as a switch it back to .local, it complains again. >> It seems to be there's >> something particular to the .local addresses that exim doesn't like >> resolving. > Yes that is an interesting data point. It's your Debian based system that is doing this, not exim. Solutions are suggested in this article: http://www.woofpuppy.com/2012/05/solving-local-dns-resolution-problems.html ...Todd -- The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine This message may contain information and/or data that is confidential and legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, publication, reproduction or dissemination is strictly prohibited and may violate certain laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by return e-mail and destroy this and all copies of this message and/or data. The content of this message has been scanned for viruses by MessageLabs and scanned by MailMarshal for unacceptable language and inappropriate content. European Electronique Ltd, Forward House, Oakfields Ind. Est, Eynsham, Oxon, OX29 4TT, is a company registered in the United Kingdom with registration number 1704440 and VAT registration number 834853016. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
