As a follow up to this, I've noticed IMail doing this more and more recently, it didn't happen as much as before we upgraded to 7.12.
However, I've caught it doing it again on a different domain rsbmacdonald.co.uk Which has only one MX record, but you can't ping it, and one of our servers has decided that it wants to send it to the a record on the domain name, which is unfortunatly our webserver that hosts the website, so it ends up going into a loop. Any ideas on what IMail is playing at ? - Keif Gwinn IARNA, a Hostway Company 6&7 Harbour Exchange Docklands London E14 9GB t: +44 207 538 8000 f: +44 207 538 8001 w: http://www.iarna.com -------- Original Message -------- Received: from list.ipswitch.com [156.21.1.21] by iarnagroup.co.uk with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.12) id A8291920090; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:00:25 +0100 Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com [212.73.210.75] by list.ipswitch.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.12) id AB141C140112; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:12:52 -0400 Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id B3720EF996 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:42:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 461195D00A for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:00:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C595D008 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:00:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A89F158F021A; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:02:23 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:55:34 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Caching of MX records In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: U X-UIDL: 325284680 >Is this Imail failing to connect to 66.113.135.14 and then last ditch >attempting to connect to 66.113.135.210 ? the RFC say that the domain.name should not be tried if MX records exists but don't respond. Since two MX records exists domain.name, Imail should not be sending to domain.name. If the MX records don't exist, the RFC says to try this: domain.name. MX 0 domain.name. >I've gotten round this by using the hosts file for now, however this isn't >correct behaviour for a mail server surely ? no, but "there's a lot of (RFC) broken software out there". Len ____________________________________________________________________ www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com: Secure config ; DNS and mail interactions IMGate.MEIway.com : Free, proven config for anti-mail-abuse gateways To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
