Re: [Exim] no IP address found for host

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Author: Avleen Vig
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To: Kevin Reed
CC: 'Rossz Vamos-Wentworth', 'exim'
Subject: Re: [Exim] no IP address found for host
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:28:37PM -0700, Kevin Reed wrote:
> Which is a bit confusing as it is the hostname that the IP resolves to that
> doesn't have dns. Normally for me, it is the other way around, the IP
> doesn't resolve.
>
> It is quite possible that that IP is not supposed to be sending mail in the
> first place. Their
> Advertised mail server is mx.xmission.com and ns2.xmission.com.


No, that's their advertised MX server. MX = inbound, not necessarily
outbound :-)