Re: [Nmh-workers] annoying DNS lookups

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> > It seems that getaddrinfo tries to lookup the IPv4 address of the
> > hostname and then do a reverse lookup to get the FQDN but doesn't
> > find it in /etc/hosts (because the system is v6 only) and thus
> > goes on asking the DNS.

nmh should be using gethostname(3) to derive the "official" local host 
name.  You cannot accurately determine the local host name from the DNS. 
Consider:

1.0.0.127       IN      PTR     kremvax
                        PTR     moscvax
                        PTR     ihnp4

--lyndon