Author: Evgeniy Berdnikov Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim trying to send email to A record of recipient domain
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:20:37AM +0600, Konstantin Boyandin wrote: > The funny thing is Exim attempt to connect to A record address (in
> this example, 10.1.2.3) of the target domain (example.net in this
> case), whereas its MX records (10.10.1.2, 10.20.2.3, for the sake of
> example) are valid, accessible and accept mail normally.
MX records must contain names, resolvable to ip addresses.
> I tried to use /etc/hosts and add corresponding line, like
>
> 10.10.1.2 example.net
>
> (the IP is the IP of MX record for the domain), but Exim ignores
> that and still does actual DNS requests for A record and attempts to
> use it.
>
> Can this Exim behavior be changed? At least, force Exim to consult
> /etc/hosts in such a case,
Just modify DNS zone to make your custom DNS replies.
> if DNS requests time out (the only cause
> of this behavior that I can offer).
This should not be the case, IMHO. Run any network traffic analyzer
to study contents of DNS requests and answers.
--
Eugene Berdnikov
