On 22/08/05, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is supposed to be Exim's behaviour a mail host has multiple A > > records, and one of the machines is unavailable. > > It ought to immediately try the other hosts, in MX priority order, so > long as there isn't an unreasonable number of hosts.
There is only one MX record, oxmail.ox.ac.uk. This name resolves to many IP addresses, one of which is unavailable: $ host -t mx ox.ac.uk ox.ac.uk MX 9 oxmail.ox.ac.uk $host oxmail.ox.ac.uk oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.161 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.163 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.165 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.167 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.171 <-- this host is unavailable oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.161 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.163 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.165 oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.167 > You haven't provided enough information about your problem message for me > to be able to say anything useful. We don't seem to have any problems with > ox.ac.uk from here. The message itself is unremarkable. Exim is attempting to connect to 129.67.1.171, which times out. 2005-08-22 14:15:49 oxmail.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.171]: Connection timed out 2005-08-22 14:15:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=internet T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out Exim doesn't seem to retry any of the other IP addresses listed for oxmail.ox.ac.uk. regards, John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
