Re: [exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

On 22/08/05, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@???> wrote:

> > I just tried restarting pdnsd and the message has now been delivered
> > successfully to one of the other hosts. I really should have run
> > tcpdump and see what was being returned before restarting it.
> >
> > So it seems to have been a problem with my DNS server.
>
> Do you have randomize_recs enabled in your pdnsd config?
>
> randomize_recs=(on|off);
> If this option is turned on, pdnsd will randomly reorder the cached
> records of one type when creating an answer. This supports round-robin
> DNS schemes and increases fail safety for hosts with multiple IP
> addresses, so this is usually a good idea.
> On by default.

If it's on by default, then yes - I haven't got it specified in my
configuration file.

regards,
John