Author: Chris Edwards Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Hotmail DNS issue
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Chambers, Phil wrote:
| If I do 'nslookup 65.54.246.99' I get two hostnames returned | | s1.bay2.hotmail.com| bay0-omc1-s27.bay0.hotmail.com | | The first has no A record, the second's A record is 65.54.246.99.
Strange:
With "dig" we see the exact same thing.
However, in last week, our exim got a few hundred messages from this IP,
and the logs imply it was always able to get a hostname (2-way match
succes), which seems a bit odd, given the DNS inconsistency.
| Can anyone suggest a solution? I don't hold out much hope of telling
| Hotmail that they got something wrong!
Only other option that springs to mind is to bypass the test for that IP.
So add:
