Re: [Exim] dbdns error

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] dbdns error
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Marc Perkel wrote:

> I'm using dbdns to do a lookup of the NS record of IP addresses and I
> have a proble. When there is no NS record I get this error.


When there is no NS record, you should get "no NS record", not "DEFER".

> headers command: lookup of "ns=136.79.149.in-addr.arpa" gave DEFER:


When I try that lookup using "dig", the result is SERVFAIL. That is a
DNS error; you can't know whether there is an NS record or not.

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