Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Peter Bowyer wrote: >> On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > >> If I'm trying to email someone and all their name servers are down, will >> > I > >> get an unroutable address rather than having it wait and retry? >> > > >> No - your circumstance will provoke a temporary failure. >> > > >> I would have thought that but that's not what's happening. I'm wondering why >> I'm getting unroutable address due to DNS problems? >> > > Depends what the nature of the problem is, I guess - if the > autoritative severs for the domain are returning NXDOMAIN somewhere, > you could get unrouteable status - what's the domain name in > question? > > Peter >
Actually it's the nane servers for uu.net. The problen is that they have 2 name servers and they are sequential IP addresses. There is also a network routing problem between me and them so it looks to my servers as if they are down. -- ## 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/
