On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:34 +0200, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> I got an error sending to *@altavista.* ( either .it or .com or fr or ... is the
> same).
> " all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts "
>
> It looks that the MX record is just
> altavista.com. 76 IN MX 0 .
> of course "." does not resolve well ...
> host altavista.* resolve always to 209.73.164.90 ...
>
> the p[roblem is either with exim 4.30 and 3.36
Nope, the problem is with altavista. Just to sum up what you said
again:
$ host altavista.com
altavista.com has address 209.73.164.90
$ host -t mx altavista.com
altavista.com mail is handled by 0 .
So, altavista.com resolves to an IP. If they didn't have an MX mail
would be delivered there. But they do advertise an MX, albeit invalid,
but an MX non-the-less. So mail will be sent there...and fail.
--
Chris
