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Re: (Fwd) How does postfix resolve domain names?

From: Noel Jones (njonesmegan.vbhcs.org)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2006 - 11:18:32 CST


At 04:36 AM 11/8/2006, eugene_geldenhuys wrote:
>simply to do with the process postfix uses to resolve host
>names. I
>assume that postfix calls a process to read
>/etc/resolv.conf, it

postfix does not resolve names. postfix passes the name to
the system resolver library and waits for the result. All
the work (including parsing of resolv.conf) is done by the
system resolver library.

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Noel Jones