Re: [EXIM] How exim uses DNS

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Carl Horne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] How exim uses DNS
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Carl Horne wrote:

> Problems: If DNS entries point to another box everything works great.
> If they point to the exim box I get the point to self errors or cannot
> route to errors. Also when it looks up mail.domain.com it uses the MX
> entry instead of the A record.


Do some tests with commands like

exim -d11 -bt user@domain

That will show you the routers it is using and the DNS lookups that it
is doing and will confirm whether or not it is looking up MX records
(which it shouldn't be, according to your configuration as far as I can
see).

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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