From: Steve Crawford (scrawfordpinpointresearch.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 18:01:32 CDT

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Check the resolution order in /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/nsswitch.conf?

Cheers,
Steve

On Thursday 01 May 2003 3:51 pm, Nick Fisher wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having some trouble getting postfix to use values in a hosts file and
> I hoping that someone could shed some light on my problem. I have set a
> host's IP address in the /etc/hosts file but postfix never seems to use
> it.
>
> In DNS:
> fudge.domain.tld = 10.0.0.2
> MX 10 = fudge.domain.tld
> MX 20 = jam.domain.tld
>
> In hosts:
> fudge.domain.tld = 10.0.0.3
>
> If I do a ping from the box it always goes to 10.0.0.3 (hosts) but when
> ever postfix does an MX lookup it always comes back with 10.0.0.2 (DNS).
> The 'chroot' column in master.cf is all 'n'so I don't think I have to move
> the hosts file.
>
> Any insites joyfully received.
>
> Nick

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