Hi Troy, on Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:41:55 -0400 you wrote:
> Can someone point me to a description of how Exim performs host lookups
> for resolving domains and/or mx servers, complete with information as to
> what would cause the process not to complete?
I'll leave that one to someone who knows the source ;)
> I have a customer who can't email their attorney because exim can't
> complete the host lookup for the attorney's domain.
> I've done it manually, and it seems to work fine.
Have you tried checking their domain with a checker such as the (very
handy and convenient)
http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/ ? This is a
fantastic tool which is quick and easy to use and read, recurses through
all possible DNS servers and often shows up DNS errors that can cause
inconsistent results/weird problems.
Tim