On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Troy Engel wrote: > Alas, it's the same - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ host -t mx bastille.fluid.com bastille.fluid.com mail is handled by 10 mail.fluid.com. $ host mail.fluid.com. mail.fluid.com is an alias for yak.fluid.com. yak.fluid.com has address 63.76.105.204 Looks to me like an MX record pointing to a CNAME. RFC2181, at least, says don't do that. MX records should point at A records, not CNAME records. > I'm getting the idea it's some sort of weird MX loop having to do > with DNS, but this is where I'm lost. :-/ I can't tell you exactly what's going wrong. Maybe some confusion between what the public DNS says (to us out here when we query it) and what your local hosts data says when *you* query it? -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
