-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 13/02/2013 23:16, Jon Morby wrote: > Is anyone else seeing problems with hotmail customers getting email > into their hosted domains? > > We're seeing issues where by hotmail seem to be totally ignoring > the MX records and going straight for the A record … which doesn't > always work when their mail is hosted on another box and the A > record is purely a web server > > I would see this periodically but very randomly and no-one at > hotmail seemed to think it was an issue, however this seems to have > gotten a whole lot worse this week with all inbound emails from > hotmail to fido.net <http://fido.net>, redmail.com > <http://redmail.com>, etc totally ignoring the MX's (not even > trying them) and going straight to the A record > > Any suggestions gratefully received
There was a long thread on this subject over on [email protected]. entitled "Hotmail ignoring MX, going direct to @ IN A?" in March/April last year. I don't think it contains any answers, but you may find it interesting. James - -- James Davis 0300 999 2340 (+44 1235 822340) Senior CSIRT Member Lumen House, Library Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0SG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlEcnrsACgkQjsS2Y6D6yLz0VQEAt8fUmLIOxzwiabaX9HwM5xCd cFh11yPZBGkPHQIQo7YBAItBHnaDgX2NZz+Yv/7FBg3l3INGpSP2cOYbVguUPDRa =LoUg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238
