RE: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Willy De la Court
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 21:43, mick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hello, > I have a system that I want to run qmail as a backup MX server. > I have all the domains I want to accept mail for in > control/rcpthosts. I don't have anything i

Re: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Charles Cazabon
mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a system that I want to run qmail as a backup MX server. > I have all the domains I want to accept mail for in control/rcpthosts. [...] > Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, > it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't

Re: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread mick
There is a bogus MX record setup for testing: ; ;MX Records for mtco.net ; mtco.net. IN MX 20 bogus.mtco.com. mtco.net. IN MX 30 ns2.mtco.com. It points to a non-responsive IP address to simulate the primary server going down. On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Charle

Re: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:43:13PM -0500, mick wrote: > Hello, > I have a system that I want to run qmail as a backup MX server. > I have all the domains I want to accept mail for in control/rcpthosts. > I don't have anything in locals or virtualdomans. [...] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry. Altho

Re: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:43:13PM -0500, mick wrote: > I have a system that I want to run qmail as a backup MX server. [...] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, > it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as loca

RE: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Willy De la Court
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 22:30, mick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > There is a bogus MX record setup for testing: > ; > ;MX Records for mtco.net > ; > mtco.net. IN MX 20 bogus.mtco.com. > mtco.net. IN MX 30

Re: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread mick
Great! I guess you haven't read my response. It is the second [30] MX. the first is [20]. And I even sent the clip from the SOA. Thats why I'm asking what else would need to be done. On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Jurjen Oskam wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:43:13PM -0500, mick wrote: > > > I hav

RE: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread mick
It resolves to an IP: [root@ns2 log]# ping bogus.mtco.net PING bogus.mtco.net (24.17.22.210): 56 octets data An IP that is not going to respond To simulate a primary MX going down. Which is the point of a backup MX server. If the primary were responding and running smpt it wouldn't matter :)

RE: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Willy De la Court
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 23:40, mick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > It resolves to an IP: > [root@ns2 log]# ping bogus.mtco.net > PING bogus.mtco.net (24.17.22.210): 56 octets data Here is a paste of the results i get > set type=mx > mtco.ne

Re: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-25 Thread Tim Legant
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:40:23PM -0500, mick wrote: > It resolves to an IP: > [root@ns2 log]# ping bogus.mtco.net > PING bogus.mtco.net (24.17.22.210): 56 octets data > > An IP that is not going to respond To simulate a primary MX going > down. Which is the point of a backup MX server. If

RE: qmail as Back up MX box

2001-04-26 Thread mick
[tail between my legs] burned by my fat fingers again! fixed the type-o in my SOA record and it worked great. Thanks everyone for your responses. Very helpfull as usual. On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Willy De la Court wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Wednesday, April