On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Tippe, Darrell wrote:
> lukensinc.com preference = 100, mail exchanger = 208.169.176.82
Broken MX record.
> Usually when you do a MX record lookup you get a mail server fully qualified
> name not a IP address. Is there something I can configure in exim to handle
> this or is this a problem with the dns configured on that site?
The DNS zone is broken. The RFCs are very specific in stating that the
right-hand side of an MX record is a domain name, *not* an IP address.
Since "208.169.176.82" is in fact a syntactically valid domain name,
Exim has treated it as one.
Exim should have added this comment to the error: "it appears that the
DNS operator for this domain has installed an invalid MX record with an
IP address instead of a domain name on the right hand side". Did it not
do that?
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
