Pfft. It's DNS. I just got my DNS server to answer incorrectly... :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host -t mx demoniosonriente.com demoniosonriente.com has no MX record :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host -t mx demoniosonriente.com demoniosonriente.com mail is handled by 10 mailin.rzone.de.
(After investigating the problem for two days before I ask for help, it's immediately after asking for help that I find a clue.) Carl D Cravens wrote: > I'm having a weird, intermittent problem. > > I run a mailing list server, and most of the time, delivery is fine. > But every so often, Exim decides to try delivering to the A-records of a > domain instead of the MX. It will do this just moments after and prior > to successful deliveries to that same address. > > It's doing this for lots of domains, and multiple days in a row for the > same ones, so I find it unlikely that it's a DNS problem outside of my > server. I half suspect a problem with my own DNS server, though it's a > pretty stock BIND8 installation. Possibly caused by load problems, > since the mailing list server dumps a lot of messages at once, but the > load is never all that high, nor is the network traffic. We switched to > using -odqs when submitting messages and the problem has not occurred in > the last fifteen hours, though that's not a clear indicator, as the mail > traffic's been light. > > Thing is, if DNS is failing, it should be returning a failure, which > shouldn't cause Exim to try the A-records, right? Exim should only try > A-records when it gets a definitive "no MX exists" response. > > It's frustrating to troubleshoot because it's intermittent... if I > "exim4 -d+route -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED]" at any given point, it tells me > it's going to route it to the MX. > > Any clues as to what I should look at and for? > > Thanks! > -- Carl D Cravens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hey! We're out of wine, women, and song! [EMAIL PROTECTED] NO MERRIER -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
