Thomas Keller: > I understand that this is done by the resolver library and not Postfix. > But since we are already talking here about this, can you perhaps see > what is happening ?
You can watch some of its activity with the strace command. See http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#auto_trace for how to do this with Postfix daemon processes. > Is it possible resolve is trying to ping the IPs? Ask your OS distribution's help forum. This is off topic for Postfix. Wietse