qmail ONLY uses DNS. In your case it is tcp-env that is doing the DNS
lookups. /etc/hosts entries will not work. If you don't want the phone
connection to occur, you will need to run a DNS on the qmail box which
knows about your local machines.
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Mike Gerber wrote:
> Thank you for your answer, Russell!
>
> > > Am I right that qmail-pop3d gets the hostnames of the clients
> > > (which do not have any)? And that because of this, the line goes
> > > up? (Can't get the host that actually causes the dialup (via
> > > tcpdump), because the clients are masqueraded behind the server)
> > Whenever you access a server hosted by tcpserver, tcpserver attempts
> > to set several environment variables. Two of these, TCPREMOTEHOST and
> > TCPLOCALHOST, are set to the reverse DNS entry for the remote and
> > local IP address.
>
> hmm. Unfortunately I'm using inetd (now). Are there any
> experiences? Would entries in /etc/hosts for the local machines be
> ok for inetd?
> (I will switch to tcpserver when installing new systems but I
> would like to stay with inetd on this system)
>
> > The other place where qmail accesses the DNS is in qmail-remote.
>
> According to the Qmail-"Big Picture" qmail-remote is only used
> when sending mail. Am I Right? DNS lookups are ok when sending
> mails.
>
>
> Mike.
>
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