On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 09:27, Bob Castleberry wrote: > I have all my email clients hardcoded to eliminate dns lookup (anything > to help the process along right), if we ever switch isp connections from > uunet I'll be quitting in a hurry (over a hundred hardcoded outhouse > clients to change, in multiple location), I was having resolution issues > before hardcoding but only with outhouse, everything else works fine, > now that I think about it I hadn't seen any of these issues with > outhouse express (would that be jonny on the spot :) it's kind of > funny, management insists we use this awful software and it's my fault > when it doesn't work right, go figure
Seems like a short-sighted optimization. Instead, run a local DNS server that you control, so your resolution issues are your own. Create a local DNS record (eg. mail.mycompany.com) that points at the right mail server for your clients. (I create separate records for each service, eg. smtp.mycompany.com, pop3.mycompany.com, etc.) Then your clients will resolve against a known good name server, and your configuration is in one place, where it's easy to change if need be.
