----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:36 PM
Subject: [Exim] Slightly OT DNS<->MTA problem
> this might have been discussed before and is somewhat related
> to DNS and not to EXIM but imagine a customer has a zone-file
> like this:
>
> @ IN MX mail.customer.com.
> IN MX 2nd-mail.isp.com.
> www IN A 192.168.1.1
> mail IN A 192.168.1.2
<snip>
> What we get then is, that some MTAs try to send SMTP-mail
> to that host instead of looking up the MX-records. Is there
> any chance to circumvent this?
The MX records are wrong which is why the mta's are sending to the A record.
it should be :
@ IN MX 0 mail.customer.com.
IN MX 1 2nd-mail.isp.com.
You MUST not forget priorities in the mx records
HTH
cya
Andrew
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