Mailscanner and DNS

[John Rudd]

Julian Field wrote:
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>> Does MailScanner cache resolver information and then do lookups directly?
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> MailScanner ain't no dns server  :-)
> It relies on your OS to do that sort of stuff.
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>> Specifically, if I change the DNS server information in resolv.conf, 
>> do I need to restart MailScanner?
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> No.
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I was pretty sure those were going to be the answers, but I just wanted 
to be sure (eliminate each piece of the process).  Thanks.

>> We've taken certain name servers out of our resolv.conf, and yet we're 
>> still seeing traffic to those servers from our MailScanner machines.  
>> I'm not sure if this is a problem with the resolver, sendmail, or 
>> MailScanner.
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> I would suspect nscd on your MailScanner machines.
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Except we don't run nscd on those systems.