Hello,
I'm guessing here that autonation.com has used CNAME's instead of A's for
their MX records.
That way imail will error out on the MX records and use the A record instead
(If it follows the RFC).
There are a lot of mailservers that will resolve a CNAME MX correctly, so
that may explain why other hosts can sent mail. But still it is explicitly
forbidden in the RFC's to use CNAME's for MX (or NS) records.
--
Regards,
Terrence Koeman
Technical Director/Administrator
MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl)
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 23:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Bad IP Address stuck
>Getting Stack connect fail messages when Imail attempts to send to
><anyone>@autonation.com
>
>It appears to try sending to web server IP, 63.x.x.x and fails.
>
>nslookup using the same DNS server:
> - search for 'autonation.com' finds web server, 63.x.x.x
> - set type=MX
> - search for 'autonation.com' finds two mail servers in the 205.x.x.x
range.
mgw1# telnet 208.5.34.2 25
Trying 208.5.34.2...
Connected to srhqis20.repind.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 srhqis20.repind.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail
Service 5.5.2653.13) ready
quit
221 closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
mgw1# telnet 208.5.34.12 25
Trying 208.5.34.12...
Connected to repind.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 srhqis21.repind.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail
Service 5.5.2653.13) ready
quit
221 closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
>Confirmed that other mail servers can send messages to autonation.com
>correctly.
>I'm stumped why Imail continues to hold on to this non functioning
address???
>And stumped about how to clear it???.
telnet on/from the imail box to those ip�s, port 25
If that works like mine above, then maybe it�s an Imail pb, but I doubt it.
have you checked the KB for "stack connect" ?
Len
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