On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> However, today all I'm getting for these users are lookup failures :-
> $ /usr/exim/bin/exim -bt user@othermachine
> user@othermachine cannot be resolved at this time:
> host lookup did not complete
> $ ping othermachine
> PING othermachine.domain.name (10.10.1.2): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 10.10.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms
Try adding -d11 to your -bt test. That will show the DNS queries so you
can see *which* lookup did not complete.
> - there isn't an MX record, and never has been.
I have known broken nameservers to return SERVFAIL instead of NXDOMAIN
for non-existent MX records, which would cause this effect.
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