On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:52:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> So, if the address times out from my cache, I have a 50 % chance of
> getting 192.168.0.1 as an MX address which also happens to be the
> address on one of the interfaces of my exim host (I didn't choose the
> IP address range at that site). Hence, exim freezes the e-mail with
> "lowest priority MX points to local host".
Of course, if you had read RFC1918, you would have known to pick a random
subnet in one of 10/8 172.16/12 or 192.168/16, and would have got a "No
route to host" temporary failure, resulting in ms1 being relooked up, and
possibly delivered.
MBM
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Matthew Byng-Maddick <mbm@???> http://colondot.net/
