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Re: [Nmh-workers] annoying DNS lookups

2011-05-12 12:17:58
It seems that getaddrinfo tries to lookup the IPv4 address of the
hostname and then do a reverse lookup to get the FQDN but doesn't
find it in /etc/hosts (because the system is v6 only) and thus
goes on asking the DNS.

nmh should be using gethostname(3) to derive the "official" local host name. You cannot accurately determine the local host name from the DNS. Consider:

1.0.0.127       IN      PTR     kremvax
                        PTR     moscvax
                        PTR     ihnp4

--lyndon

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