Victor Brilon wrote:
--- Ronan McGlue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes, but BIND isnt running on the machine in
question... (atm)
The nets guys here are seeing a lot of lookups from
this SPAMD machine
for our mailhubs to the Local dns...
which is an extra couple of miliseconds i want to
avoid by specifying
them in the /etc/hosts file.
I've restarted INETD but the SPAMD machine is still
looking up the hubs
to send the results of the messages back...
Check your nsswitch.conf file and see how your
hostname entries are being resolved. It might be
avoiding the hosts file altogether.
/etc/nsswitch.conf
.
.
<snip>
hosts: files dns
.
.
.
yeah i thought that might be the case but i made sure...
Victor
this is baffling... am I doing something so montrously daft you have all
overlooked it... ????
spamd running on dedicated machine
serving 3 mailhubs
all of which are in hosts file
nsswitch is as above
resolv.conf has dns's
anything else is should check??
spamd's command line???
/usr/bin/spamd -d -r /var/log/spamd.pid -m 10 -i 143.117.x.x -A
143.117.y.y,143.117.z.z,143.117.u.u
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Regards
Ronan McGlue
Info. Services
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