On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 22:16, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Host should not look at your /etc/hosts file. It's one line description > puts it quite succinctly:
I got several private mails about that and knwo I think there is a problem with looking up loca host, but it has nothing to do with the 'host' command which seems not to be expected to query the file '/etc/hosts'. I have already found out that the problem is triggered by exim on my system (woody). A dial on demand is invocated every time exim is called querying for MyMachine. This seems not to be an intended behavior and I have posted to debian-testing and exim-users@exim.org to track this and got several replies. To much cross posting is bad, I think. Therefore I have not sent anything to debian-users. Nevertheless, two other debian users have replied having similar problems. So it might be a general problem for anyone. So, I will post the result here at least. Anyway, thanks for your help! Bye, Steffen
