Re: [Exim] btinternet.com mystery

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:06:31 +0000 (GMT) Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Phil Chambers wrote:
>
> > I must be missing something here! Please enlighten me.
> >
> > I have a few bounce messages on my exim queue which have been sitting there for over
> > 24 hours. They are all addressed to ukgenetics.rm@??? and the message
> > logs give:
> >
> > btinternet.com [216.102.246.27]: Connection timed out
> >
> > It seemed odd to me that btinternet would be timing out and I looked up the MX
> > records for btinternet.com, tried an smtp telnet connection to both with no problem.
> > The mystery is why exim is logging [216.102.246.27] when my DNS lookup returned
> > [194.73.73.117] and [194.73.73.118] as the addresses for the MX hosts (stargate and
> > moongate.btinternet.com). There is no reverse entry for [216.102.246.27].
>
> When you say "addressed to", I assume you mean the actual envelope
> recipient address, not the To: or Cc: address. If not, ...
>
> Did you try exim -bt ukgenetics.rm@??? to make Exim route it
> again, to see what it said? And if 216.102.246.27, then try with -d9 to
> get more detail.
>
> Did you try checking all the DNS servers for btinternet.com to see if
> they were in step with each other? (They appear to be _now_.)
>
> Philip

I think there must have been a temporary corruption/error in the DNS somewhere.
When I did the "exim -bt ukgenetics.rm@???" test it reported the correct
IP address. I then told eximon to re-try the deliveries and they went through on
the correct addresses.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster@???)
University of Exeter