On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:12:30AM +0000, Victor Churchill wrote: > The script wants to send the message to b...@hughes-energy.com (Names > left of the '@' changed. I have left the domain name unsanitized) > The failure msg looks like this:
> <bo...@h-ems.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for > name=data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com type=A: Host not found > That line "for name=data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com type=A: Host not found" > looks to me almost like a blatant typo/clerical error in somebody's > setup. Yes. Looks like the classic missing . in a zonefile: The MX for h-ems.com is: [hug...@the ~]$ dig -t MX h-ems.com +short 10 data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com. Yet: [hug...@the ~]$ dig -t any data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com +short [hug...@the ~]$ dig -t any data.h-ems.com +short 213.232.95.114 So they probably meant to set their MX to data.h-ems.com. > Looks to me like b...@hughes-energy.com is > translated/resolved/forwarded (never quite sure of the terminology) to > bo...@h-ems.com, That seems likely. > but then whilst it is trying to resolve bo...@h-ems.com, > gateway1.messagingengine.com. finds that data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com does > not exist. > I am not sure how/why bo...@fastmail.co.uk comes in to it. I'd have > though the whole thing would have failed before it got as far as him. > Can somebody indicate from this information, what sequence of > processes going on? I'd actually find it quite useful to get more of > an idea of what is happening. I don't think from what you have that you can assume anything about the fastmail address. However it looks like b...@hughes-energy.com is forwarding to bo...@h-ems.com and that mail to h-ems.com is broken because of the broken MX record. Hence the bounce you see. -- Simon [ hug...@earth.li ] *\ Le doute est le commencement de la \** ****** ]-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-[ **\ sagesse. \* ****** [ Htag.pl 0.0.24 ] ***\ \ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
