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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Neal Becker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: retry
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Neal Becker wrote:

> So the second MX is really to the same address as the first!
> Obviously this is broken. Apparantly exim treats this as if there was
> really only a single MX record, which is fine, although it seems to
> suggest code robustness above and beyond the call of duty.


Well, Exim doesn't have any special code to deal with this, and when I
tried it (using an invalid port number, to force "connection refused")
it tried both MX records, but reflected the canonical name both times:

Connecting to misnt1.cws.comsat.com [134.133.176.130] ... failed
LOG: MAIN
misnt1.cws.comsat.com [134.133.176.130]: Connection refused
Connecting to misnt1.cws.comsat.com [134.133.176.130] ... failed
LOG: MAIN
misnt1.cws.comsat.com [134.133.176.130]: Connection refused

I can see how that is confusing!

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