Re: [exim] Unroutable Address Question

Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote:
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>> Peter Bowyer wrote:
>> On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote:
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>> If I'm trying to email someone and all their name servers are down, will
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> I
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>> get an unroutable address rather than having it wait and retry?
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>> No - your circumstance will provoke a temporary failure.
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>> I would have thought that but that's not what's happening. I'm wondering why
>> I'm getting unroutable address due to DNS problems?
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> Depends what the nature of the problem is, I guess - if the
> autoritative severs for the domain are returning NXDOMAIN somewhere,
> you could get unrouteable status - what's the domain name in
> question?
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> Peter
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Actually it's the nane servers for uu.net. The problen is that they have
2 name servers and they are sequential IP addresses. There is also a
network routing problem between me and them so it looks to my servers as
if they are down.