Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Mark S. Guz wrote:
>
> > I identified which was the broken server, but surely exim itself should
> > have reported an error in contacting this server.
> > It gave me no clue whatsoever it was having difficulty, apart from
> > taking a minute to respond on port 25.......
>
> There is no way that Exim, in the middle of obeying a DNS lookup, can
> let you know what is happening. If it takes a long time to connect, it
> takes a long time to connect... It's all out of Exim's hands because the
> lookup is handled by calling a DNS resolver function.
>
the dns resolver will return a fail code if the lookup fails will it
not? If so could exim not then put this in its logs?
so that we can see which server is failing??
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