On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:40:23PM -0500, mick wrote:
> It resolves to an IP:
> [root@ns2 log]# ping bogus.mtco.net
> PING bogus.mtco.net (24.17.22.210): 56 octets data
>
> An IP that is not going to respond.... To simulate a primary MX going
> down. Which is the point of a backup MX server. If the primary were
> responding and running smpt it wouldn't matter :)
The error message is quite clear. The DNS cache it is consulting is
claiming that there is no higher priority MX. Once your DNS is in order,
qmail will secondary just fine.
An off-the-wall possibility: Have you flushed the cache that qmail
consults since you added the bogus MX? If not, then all it has cached is
the secondary's MX.
Tim
