Re: [exim] [OT] first mx has no A record

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Author: Heiko Schlittermann
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] [OT] first mx has no A record
Hello David,

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@???> (Do 08 Mai 2008 16:19:15 CEST):
> It certainly shouldn't be fatal -- and isn't necessarily even a mistake.
> For a long time, the primary MX host for infradead.org was
> 'phoenix.ipv6.infradead.org', which as you might guess from the name
> doesn't have an A record.
>
> There were occasional reports of Postfix getting confused, deciding that
> it actually resolved to 0.0.0.0 and thus to the local host, and failing
> to deliver the mail -- but other than that, it was fine.


Thank you for your hint. So the failure is quite clearly on the side of
the "mirapoint appliance". Unfortunely mostly such boxes are really
expensive, so the owner/"admin" will not be willing to confess this bug.
And even worse - it's operated by "T-Systems" (as far as I know) - and
alone the names seems to be the prove enough that it can't be on their side....

    Best regards from Dresden
    Viele Grüße aus Dresden
    Heiko Schlittermann
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