[Gllug] flushing dns cache

[SteveC]

* Robert McKay (robert at mckay.com) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, SteveC wrote:
> 
> > i hope this is a really stoopid question - i have a debian box that won't
> > deliver mail. exim says example.com is unroutable for mail but my three
> > other debian boxes like it just fine, and they are hanging off the same
> > dns server. it can ping it etc. example.com did have some dns problems
> > last week but is fine now. i tried rebooting [ugh] but no luck.
> 
> Why are you trying to mail example.com? my understanding is that
> example.com has been set asside by the IANA for use in documentation and
> other 'example's. There are no working email addresses at eaxmple.com, it
> has no MX records, and the A record it points too (192.0.34.72) isn't
> running an SMTP daemon on prot 25. Are you using example.com as your
> `local' intranet domain or something? Perhaps exim has been changed to not
> even attempt to deliver to that address as it's a well known `example'
> address that shouldn't be mailed.

:-)

I said 'example.com' because i didn't want everyone to know which machine 
i was really mailing.

:-)

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/

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