> OK, now I am confused. Is the same box doing primary and secondary? I
> thought we were discussing the secondary here -- its IP addresses,
etc.
> I'd really like to understand how this got broken in the first place
> (although I am glad that you got it working...) If the logs and
ifconfig
> output you posted were not from the secondary, where did they come
from?
mail.cct.at (1st mx) and mail.defense.at (2nd mx) are two different
machines. We were only discussing the 2nd mx and all the logs are from
the 2nd mx. The ethernet device was configured to 194.163.14.195 and I
had an alias for 194.163.14.210 (which would be mail.defense.at), but
qmail somehow didn't recognize that it was the 2nd mx. Finally I changed
the ethernet device to .210 and set an alias for .195.
> Here's how I interpreted what I saw, just to make this clear. Reading
> the logs of the secondary, it appeared that it did not recognize that
it
> should be the secondary -- the IP address assigned to the A record
that
> MX pointed to was not 'local' to the box. This is what had me
> confused....
There are several ip addresses assigned to one ethernet device. Looks
like qmail can't handle ip aliases. Usually the machine qmail runs on
differs from the one the webserver runs on, that means on an own
machine, so it's only one IP anyways.
-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
