tell me more about this France thing... which isp do you use? who's better
over there? we just ordered a UUNet connection in Paris and I hope that it
was a good decision.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:55 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] primary MX fails frequently
> We have a customer on a 64 kbits leased line (doan laff, that sh*t's
> expensive in France), running Exchange. We have our DNS set up so that
> incoming mail is preferably delivered directly to him:
>
> hisdomain.com IN MX 5 exchange.hisdomain.com
> hisdomain.com IN MX 10 mailserver.ourdomain.com
>
> Also, we relay all his outgoing mail, so we've got his
> exhcange.hisdomain.com and hisdomain.com in our NT hosts file, and his
> exchange set up to send all his outgoing to mailserver.ourdomain.com.
>
> His overall mail delivery works fine, but we see many instances (using my
> IMDeliver www.MEIway.com/IMDeliver log extractor tool) where our
> mailserver is rdeliver-ing to hisdomain.com, ie, forwarding incoming mail
> to him, meaning that our mailserver is working as his backup maildomain
> frequently.
>
> From everywhere and everytime I've pinged, nsuplooked, tracerouted, all
is
> cool from Internet to his exchange.hisdomain.com and hisdomain.com. Also
> his company reports no pb's surfing all day over that line, so I'm fairly
> sure the leased line connectivity is solid.
>
> What could be the cause/solution for so many incoming Internet msgs being
> relayed through us rather than being delivered directly to him?
>
> Len
>
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