there are two servers, mail.cct.at/213.229.44.70 itself (primary mx) and
mail.defense.at/194.163.14.210 (secondary mx), both running qmail 1.03:
cct.at mail exchanger = 10 mail.cct.at.
cct.at mail exchanger = 20 mail.defense.at.
mail.defense.at has 'cct.at' in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts so it
relays the mails directed to @cct.at to the mail.cct.at server when it
gets back up. However, when cct.at is down and I try to send a mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], mails get redirected to mail.defense.at (2nd mx) and
then tries to send the mail to the 1st mx (mail.cct.at). Because the 1st
mx isn't avaiable it gets delivered to the 2nd mx (mail.defense.at) and
so it tries to resend the same message to itself every second and stops
with 'too many hops':
<snip>
Received: (qmail 26731 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Sep 2001 10:58:58 -0000
Received: from host-194-163-14-210.i-sp.com (HELO mail.defense.at)
(194.163.14.210)
by 0 with SMTP; 6 Sep 2001 10:58:58 -0000
Received: (qmail 26728 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Sep 2001 10:58:58 -0000
Received: from host-194-163-14-210.i-sp.com (HELO mail.defense.at)
(194.163.14.210)
by 0 with SMTP; 6 Sep 2001 10:58:58 -0000
Received: (qmail 26725 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Sep 2001 10:58:57 -0000
Received: from host-194-163-14-210.i-sp.com (HELO mail.defense.at)
(194.163.14.210)
by 0 with SMTP; 6 Sep 2001 10:58:57 -0000
Received: (qmail 26722 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Sep 2001 10:58:57 -0000
Received: from host-194-163-14-210.i-sp.com (HELO mail.defense.at)
</snip>
Any ideas what's wrong here?
-roland.
--
Roland Dworschak
http://www.defense.at/
"Guys are visually stimulated...They're easy to manipulate. All you have
to do is dress up in a sexy outfit. Girls just have this power over
guys. Guys are sort of stupid that way." - Jessica Alba
