From: Anne Wilson (cannewilsongooglemail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2007 - 07:28:50 CST

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On Sunday 18 November 2007 13:02:38 Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> Anne Wilson skrev, on 18-11-2007 13:44:
>
> [...]
>
> > That fixed it - 43 messages, most being delay warnings. Thanks for that.
> >
> > I was sure, though, that on an older system I had the 'david.lydgate.lan'
> > format working. I'm happy to use the changed format now, but I hate
> > mysteries.
>
> Don't need to be a mystery, with Unix/Linux there are mostly no
> mysteries (in contrast o other OSs). Suspect your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> file: Your Postfix is going direct to DNS and not to FILES.
>
> See here:
>
> 'gethostbyname speed'
> Hostname: ipd50aa34e.speed.planet.nl
> Aliases: speed
> Addresses: 213.10.163.78gethostbyaddr
>
> "speed" is not in DNS, is in /etc/hosts:
>
> 213.10.163.78 ipd50aa34e.speed.planet.nl speed
>
> Relevant line out of /etc/nsswitch.conf:
>
> hosts: files dns.
>
> "gethostbyname" is compiled from a little C file contributed by Wietse
> years ago, the same as "gethostbyaddr", most useful ;)
>
> Best,
>
> --Tonni

Most odd, then. I have

hosts: files nis dns

Anne

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