[IMail Forum] Forcing DNS lookup

[Mark Gordon]

I have a client who is constantly trying to email nara.gov. DNSreport looks like a Christmas tree with the amount of failures they have in the DNS records. The question is sometimes the imail server finds the record and most of the time it does not. What do I need to put in the hosts file to serve as the lookup for the MX records of that domain?   This is what we get most of the time:   20060921 125720 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (c470affa0090b588) [64.0.89.82] F:\IMail\spool\Dc470affa0090b588.SMD 1998 20060921 125721 127.0.0.1       SMTP (0000000000000000) Info - Adding Queue file F:\IMail\spool\Qc470affa0090b588.SMD 20060921 125721 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) processing F:\IMail\spool\Qc470affa0090b588.SMD 20060921 125721 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov in HOSTS and MX 20060921 125736 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov by stack 20060921 125756 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov in HOSTS and MX 20060921 125811 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov by stack 20060921 125832 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov in HOSTS and MX 20060921 125847 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov by stack 20060921 125908 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov in HOSTS and MX 20060921 125908 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) [x] looking up nara.gov by stack 20060921 125928 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) Creating message from Postmaster 20060921 125928 127.0.0.1       SMTP (c470affa0090b588) finished F:\IMail\spool\Qc470affa0090b588.SMD status=2