Re: [exim] retry time ERROR

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ronan McGlue
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] retry time ERROR
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Ronan McGlue wrote:

> and also running exim -bt  user.blah@??? on the MTA gives me
> user.blah@???
>    router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
>    host 194.46.34.90        [unknown]        MX=10 ** unusable **
>    host expint.nipsa.org.uk [213.121.182.66] MX=20


This shows that nipsa.org.uk has these MX records:

nipsa.org.uk.            MX 10 194.46.34.90.
nipsa.org.uk.            MX 20 expint.nipsa.org.uk.


The first of these is invalid. The righthand side of an MX record MUST
be a DOMAIN, not an IP address. That's why Exim can't use it. But that's
probably only peripheral to the overall problem.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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