[lug] DNS resolution woes

[John Hernandez]

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I'm thinking it would be a Qmail option rather than IP layer "trick".

Here's a possibly relevant thread.  Thanks to Google ;)

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Linux_Networking/Q_10836861.html

In that case, the answer appears to be adding an entry to
control/smtproutes etc...

Good luck!

Jeff Schroeder wrote:
| 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.
|
|
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