Re: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation

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Author: Andrew
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To: dimitry, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation
Is this on the server with the lowest mx?
if it is, make sure your LOCAL_DOMAIN option has 123.com in it.
HTH
cya
Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dmitry Alyabyev" <gw-exim@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:41 AM
Subject: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation


> Hello
>
> I have strange situation with one domain (I named it 123.com and it's
> not real name so please don't be confused by that).
>
> All mails are frozen like this:
>
> 2000-07-10 15:07:40 13BcLa-0005Dv-00
> <=sentto-185859-432-963230769-if=123.com@???
> H=ej.egroups.com [208.50.144.75] P=smtp S=5332
> id=00ce01bfea67$b1d8cdd0$0244a8c0@ksf from
> <sentto-185859-432-963230769-if=123.com@???> for
> if@???
> 2000-07-10 15:07:40 13BcLa-0005Dv-00 lowest MX record for 123.com
> points to local host
> 2000-07-10 15:07:40 13BcLa-0005Dv-00 == if@??? R=lookuphost defer
> (-1): lowest numbered MX record points to local host
> 2000-07-10 15:07:40 13BcLa-0005Dv-00 Frozen
>
> In the same time list of MX-records looks like:
>
> $ nslookup -q=mx 123.com
> Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> 123.com preference = 30, mail exchanger = relay2.mydomain.com
> 123.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail.123.com
> 123.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.123.com
> 123.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = relay.mydomain.com
> 123.com nameserver = mail.123.com
> 123.com nameserver = ns.mydomain.com
> 123.com nameserver = nss.mydomain.com
>
> Exim-host is relay.mydomain.com
>
> Comment (or the clue): host mail.123.com is down.
>
> But why exim doesn't try to deliver it to mail.123.com every time
> because of lowest MX ?
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
> --
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> Best rgds,                      Dimitry

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