From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 13:59:07 CST

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On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Reggie Sniff:
> > What I cannot figure is why Postfix does not work just like dig in that it
> > won't seem to use any of the other servers in the /etc/resolv.conf file to
> > resolve a host that my local server cannot seem to resolve.
>
> Postfix uses the standard res_search() system library routine.

Which when NOT chrooted, uses the standard /etc/resolv.conf file.

    http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#no_chroot

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