W B Hacker wrote: > Jakob Hirsch wrote: >> Dr. Tilo Levante, 2010-06-15 15:58: >> >>> we have the following log entry about the backup MX: >>> >>> 450 4.1.0 Don't use the Backup MX 'relay.rzone.de' while the Primary MX >>> is available - please send your mail to ... >>> >>> Does exim use the Backup MX if the primary MX is available? Can I >>> configure exim to prefer the primary MX? >> Can you post the rcpt domain of the message? >> rzone.de is the German ISP Strato, but I don't know any domains hosted >> there that have relay.rzone.de listed as a MX. >> Usually they only have this 10 mailin.rzone.de. >> >> >> Funny thing is, just two days ago a message from Strato's outbound >> relays was blocked on my mailserver because it connected to the second >> MX without trying the first one before... >> > > There appear to be propagation issues. > > Dig from USA, IAD area and from Hong Kong do not return the same records (or > necessarily *any* records).
Directly checking the four listed primary nameservers ... > > There is no MX RR for relay.rzone.de Exim appears to have found it by its A > RR. > > rzone.de lists as its *only* MX portal.webgods.de > > portal.webgods.de does not respond to a ping, but does to telnet smtp. > > rzone.de - despite published RR's, does not necessarily even resolve, so > cannot > be pinged or tenet'ed to (from HKG or IAD). > > relay.rzone.de responds to both ping and telnet smtp. Also http - though only > to > a placeholder page. Well it *did* - with a rediract to an under construction page on http://relay.zone.de (xone, not rzone). Whatever was on http://relay.rzone.de is no longer responding. The http://relay.zone.de page is still up. > > Looks to me to be that something is 'in transition'. Perhaps several > somethings. > > Either way, not really an Exim issue at all. > > Might be simply hunger. > > Bill > BTW - traceroute to the nameservers completes only on ns3 and ns4, not on ns1 or ns2 ... hard to analyze a moving target..... Bill -- ## 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/
