[lug] DNS resolution woes

[Jeff Schroeder]

John wrote:

> If you can't get him to fix it, it should be possible to force Qmail
> to deliver mail for a particular domain to a hardcoded IP address
> (ignoring DNS).  Akin to the mailertable in sendmail.  Anyone know
> how?

That was one of my first thoughts.  By hard-coding a hostname in 
/etc/hosts, you can "fool" the local machine into going somewhere else 
for a web site, etc.  But I don't think you can "fool" a mail server 
because it looks for an MX record-- which is part of a DNS query and 
not the same as a hostname lookup.

Hmm.