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

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Author: Marco Wessel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] MX record exists but exim says "HOST_NOT_FOUND"

On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Toby Chamberlain wrote:

> The MX record is as follows:
> dig -tmx localnet:
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> localnet.               86400   IN      MX      10 mail.xxxxx.com.

>
> This A record of the mailserver is as follows:
> dig -ta mail.xxxxx.com.
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mail.xxxxxxx.com 65995 IN CNAME server.xxxxxx.com
> server.xxxxxx.com 42508 IN A 222.333.44.55 (this is a public IP)


Well that's wrong like I said. The MX records should be defined as A
records. Rename your MX record to server.xxxxx.com or make
mail.xxxxx.com an A record for 222.333.44.55.

Also next time don't obfuscate. Without the actual info we can only
go by what you write instead of looking things up for ourselves.
Generally makes this process much slower.