Re: [Exim] General question: reverse hostlookup

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: Suresh Ramasubramanian, oliver.egginger
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] General question: reverse hostlookup
At 7:58 am -0500 2003/12/15, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Oliver Egginger writes on 12/15/2003 7:54 AM:
>
>>Probable source of fault:
>>A nslookup for mail.epost.de yields 193.28.100.151 (instead of
>>193.28.100.167), but nslookup 193.28.100.167 returns mail.epost.de
>
>Multiple A records. Dont use nslookup, use dig.
>
>Maybe their rDNS is just timing out and your exim has problems with that
>
>    srs

>


nslookup is absolutely fine with multiple records. The PTR for
193.28.100.167 and the A for mail.epost.de are both unique (and
clearly misconfigured in some way).

Giuliano
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