Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:36:52PM -0400, Simon Stevens wrote: > To everyone whose name is not Hugh Thompson, please accept our apologies. > We're having problems with off-list communications. > > ... > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > > > hthompson@ourglobalevent.com > > all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts: > > it appears that the DNS operator for this domain has installed an > > invalid MX record with an IP address instead of a domain name on > > the right hand side That is what I see. There is only one MX record, and it has an IP address rather than a name: % dnsmx ourglobalevent.com 10 64.187.53.15 % dnsname 64.187.53.15 dnsname: fatal: unable to find host name for 64.187.53.15: timed out % telnet 64.187.53.15 25 Trying 64.187.53.15... Connected to 64.187.53.15. Escape character is '^]'. 220 ravand.com MailSite ESMTP Receiver Version 5.2.4.2 Ready quit 221 ravand.com closing Connection closed by foreign host. % dnsmx ravand.com 10 mail.ravand.com % dnsip mail.ravand.com 64.187.53.15 So it's possible that hthompson@ravand.com might work... However, there are a couple of things that the ourglobalevent.com administrator should do: change the "MX" record to use a name (mail.ravand.com is already there, but adding an "A" record for mail.ourglobalevent.com using the same address is what I'd do) and provide a proper reverse DNS entry for the server. Any name will do, but there should be a pointer there for 15.53.187.64.in-addr.arpa. (I'm copying Hugh, mainly to see if qmail bounces it like Exim does -- I honestly don't know if this is something that a mail server should be able to handle rather than bounce.) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html