It is highly essential to have "order hosts,bind" in your /etc/resolv.conf!!!
Otherwise /etc/hosts won't help so much :(
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:08:34PM -0700, Chris Thorman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You are probably right about the DNS being the cause of the delay.
>
> If you have no DNS available, then run a DNS server right there on your mail
>machine; it can be its own. Just serve "reverse" tables for all the IP networks your
>users use.
>
> If you know that only a small set of hosts will be connecting to your machine, then
>simply enter all those in /etc/hosts, and DNS will never be consulted.
>
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