> > On 23.06.10 09:21, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> >> I see the message "DNS lookup failed." in my logs for a particular
> >> email.  When I test it, I get this:
> >>
> >>     $ testmxlookup puertoislamujers.com
> >>     Soft error.
> >>     $ host puertoislamujers.com
> >>     puertoislamujers.com has address 74.86.203.162
> >>
> >> I thought that Courier would attempt delivery to the A record if there
> >> was no MX record?

> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > how do you know it has no MX records? The MX lookup didn't return valid
> > negative answer, it failed. It indicates DNS error. I can confirm this
> > - nameserver lookups for puertoislamujers.com timeout.
> > Their DNS is broken.

On 23.06.10 11:21, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Ok.  I see.  Kind of odd that their DNS returns an answer for A and
> fails for MX.

many things can happen when the DNS is broken.

> >> I realize that the server at that address is not answering to port 25,
> >> but that should generate a timeout, not a DNS error.

> > courier even does not try the A and it doesn't have to.

> Because the MX query returned an error...

However the standard says you can use A when there is no MX, and you don't
know if there is a MX when the lookup times out.

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