Sendmail Question: MX list for xyz.com points back to hosta

Sendmail Question: MX list for xyz.com points back to hosta

Post by Bibek Gho » Tue, 04 Mar 1997 04:00:00



Hi,

Would you know what this message mean

MX list for alt.poppe.com points back to ws2


a shared account.

 
 
 

Sendmail Question: MX list for xyz.com points back to hosta

Post by Leon von Staub » Wed, 05 Mar 1997 04:00:00



Quote:

>Would you know what this message mean

>MX list for alt.poppe.com points back to ws2

What it means is this:

[2]{oak}(leonvs): dig alt.poppe.com mx

; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> alt.poppe.com mx
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 7
;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 5, Addit: 7
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      alt.poppe.com, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
alt.poppe.com.  345600  MX      15 mail1.poppe.com.
alt.poppe.com.  345600  MX      10 ws2.poppe.com.

If this isn't what you wanted, you need to fix the DNS zone files for
alt.poppe.com to change the ordering of MX records.

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1. MX list for foo.com.my.domain points back to my.domain?

I have a Linux box (canoe.xcski.com) running a fairly generic sendmail.cf that
is basically straight out of the box with some anti-spam rules stuck in.  I
really don't know enough sendmail.cf to go messing with the file so I tend to
leave it alone.  I run several majordomo mailing lists from that box.  My
problem is that occassionally, mail to one or more people on the lists will
start bouncing with the message:

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

   (expanded from: :include:/home/majordomo/lists/allhats)

  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
  554 MX list for xyzzy.neosoft.com.xcski.com. points back to xcski.com

Different domains and subdomains every time.  Why does sendmail seem to have
problems doing the domain lookup?  (At least I assume that's what the problem

Other times it still doesn't.

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