Re: [exim] MX record exists but exim says "HOST_NOT_FOUND"

On Apr 18, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Thomas Hochstein wrote:

> "Toby Chamberlain" schrieb:
>
>> This domain is "localnet" and is configured on
>> the internal DNS servers. On the machine is question, "dig -t mx
>> localnet"
>> returns the correct mailserver, but "exim -d -bt toby@localnet"
>> fails with
>> "DNS lookup of localnet (MX) gave HOST_NOT_FOUND" in the dnslookup
>> bit
>
> What is the A record of that mailserver, i.e. what IP does it have?

More importantly, what is the MX record, exactly? I'm guessing you
have an IP address in there, while MX records should always be names
defined as A records.