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   The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   > So no, I don't know what it is now using as a DNS client.   
   >   
   > Its very odd. I just did this...   
   >   
   > # dig vps.templar.co.uk   
   >   
   > ; <<>> DiG 9.16.50-Raspbian <<>> vps.templar.co.uk   
   > ;; global options: +cmd   
   > ;; Got answer:   
   > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24512   
   > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1   
   >   
   > ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:   
   > ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232   
   > ; COOKIE: 7f7ca1b95493f5c601000000691d9a18750f0123b174788b (good)   
   > ;; QUESTION SECTION:   
   > ;vps.templar.co.uk.		IN	A   
   >   
   > ;; ANSWER SECTION:   
   > vps.templar.co.uk.	3726	IN	A	185.113.128.151   
   >   
   > ;; Query time: 9 msec   
   > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.101#53(192.168.0.101)   
   > ;; WHEN: Wed Nov 19 10:21:12 GMT 2025   
   > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 90   
   > ...then this...   
   > root@heating-controller:/var/ramlog# echo "This is  more  bollox isn't   
   > it?" | mail  -a "From: oil-monitor@heating-controller" -s "another   
   > message"  superroot@templar.co.uk   
   > ...and this...   
   > root@heating-controller:/var/ramlog# mailq   
   > -Queue ID-  --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------   
   > C459D1FE2E      387 Wed Nov 19 10:21:48  oil-monitor@heating-controller   
   > (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for   
   > name=vps.templar.co.uk type=MX: Host not found, try again)   
   >                                          superroot@templar.co.uk   
   >   
   > -- 0 Kbytes in 1 Request.   
   >   
   > Now unless dig is using some other means than postfix to look up DNS,   
   > it looks like the problem is in postfix somehow.   
      
   Maybe, but the above doesn?t prove it; you?ve asked for an A record but   
   Postfix asks for an MX record, so your lookup won?t have populated the   
   cache (if there is one). (It?ll look for the A record next, but until   
   it?s got the MX record it doesn?t know what A record to ask for.)   
      
   If there is doubt about what name server is being used you could use   
   tcpdump to find out.   
      
   sudo tcpdump -np -i br0 udp port 53   
      
   Replace br0 with your own network interface. You?ll need to check at   
   least loopback (lo) and any real network interfaces.   
      
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