Steven Wayne wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:17:35AM +0100, Ruairi Hickey wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a problem with an email address that mail is being sent to...
mx entry below. Bind9 seems to return the addresses in random order and exim
intermittently trys to send the email to the 99 weighted server
'mail-relay.it-tallaght.ie.' which is not configured to accept the mail (the
other 2 are).
Has anyone come accross this type of behaviour, can I force exim to try the
lowest weiged server first, or is this a bind thing....
Thanks
Ruairi
$ nslookup
set type=mx
councilofdirectors.ie
Server: 192.168.1.5
Address: 192.168.1.5#53
Non-authoritative answer:
councilofdirectors.ie mail exchanger = 10 193.1.207.2.
councilofdirectors.ie mail exchanger = 20 ns.itnet.ie.
councilofdirectors.ie mail exchanger = 99 mail-relay.it-tallaght.ie.
Hello Ruairi,
It looks like you need to get your DNS records sorted out:
10 won't work as it's an address.
20 isn't accepting smtp traffic
99 accepted smtp so Exim sent it there.
Ask your DNS provider to make mail.itnet.ie your lowest DNS MX record. And
while you're at it, take your nameserver out of the MX list.
Regards,
Steven.
Thanks for the help....
I didn't know mx records couldn't be ip addresses....
It's not a domain under my control... just one the Head of the college
sends email to....(it's always the important ones :-)
I'll contact their IT department again and ask them to change it....
Ruairi
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