Steven Wayne wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:17:35AM +0100, Ruairi Hickey wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>> I'm having a problem with an email address that mail is being sent to...
>>mx entry below. Bind9 seems to return the addresses in random order and exim
>>intermittently trys to send the email to the 99 weighted server
>>'mail-relay.it-tallaght.ie.' which is not configured to accept the mail (the
>>other 2 are).
>>
>>Has anyone come accross this type of behaviour, can I force exim to try the
>>lowest weiged server first, or is this a bind thing....
>>
>>Thanks
>> Ruairi
>>
>>$ nslookup
>>
>>
>>>set type=mx
>>>councilofdirectors.ie
>>>
>>>
>>Server: 192.168.1.5
>>Address: 192.168.1.5#53
>>
>>Non-authoritative answer:
>>councilofdirectors.ie mail exchanger = 10 193.1.207.2.
>>councilofdirectors.ie mail exchanger = 20 ns.itnet.ie.
>>councilofdirectors.ie mail exchanger = 99 mail-relay.it-tallaght.ie.
>>
>>
>
>Hello Ruairi,
>
>It looks like you need to get your DNS records sorted out:
>
>10 won't work as it's an address.
>20 isn't accepting smtp traffic
>99 accepted smtp so Exim sent it there.
>
>Ask your DNS provider to make mail.itnet.ie your lowest DNS MX record. And
>while you're at it, take your nameserver out of the MX list.
>
>Regards,
>Steven.
>
>
>
Thanks for the help....
I didn't know mx records couldn't be ip addresses....
It's not a domain under my control... just one the Head of the college
sends email to....(it's always the important ones :-)
I'll contact their IT department again and ask them to change it....
Ruairi
