A.L.Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 19 November 1999 at 11:39:17 -0600
> Okay, after much thinking and testing, I think I have figured out
> what the problems are. They seem to be related to tcp-env and name
> resolution (fwd and reverse). Why I never saw these problems before
> yesterday confuses me, but the facts speak for themselves.
>
> 1. Qmail has stopped resolving anything in /etc/hosts. I find this very
> bizare, as everything else on the system still seems to work fine with
> /etc/hosts only entry's that have no corrosponding DNS entry (the
> localhost<->127.0.0.1 maping failing for a smtproute to an alpha-pager
> program was how I figured this out). /etc/host.conf is properly configured
> (order hosts,bind ; multi on).
qmail never did resolve anything via /etc/hosts; it uses DNS *only*.
(This is another thing it does to avoid dependency on and insecurity
due to use of the system libraries).
Incidentaly, I enjoyed reading your description of the steps you'd
gone through to analyze the problem in your message yesterday.
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