byname lookup behaviour has changed etch->lenny

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-06-08 Simon Day <simon.day at pirum.com> wrote:
> Having just completed an upgrade of multiple servers from etch to lenny  
> I found a problem with the route_list behaviour in the new lenny version  
> 4.69-9

> Previously with a manualroute config for a smart host of

> route_list * smtp byname

> This would work on all servers that could resolve smtp from one of its  
> search paths in /etc/resolve.conf

> This no longer works in 4.69-9 if the first domain in the search path  
> does not resolve, but subsequent ones do.

> Ie

> search foo.com bar.com

> Previously that would work if smtp.foo.com resolved, or smtp.bar.com  
> resolved.

> Now this does not work if smtp.foo.com does not resolve, regardless of  
> whether smtp.bar.com resolves or not.
[...]

Any chance that you could doublecheck whether exim is the cuplprit or
the libc upgrade by downgrading the version of exim4-daemon-* to the
etch version?

cu andreas

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