[Mailman-Users] type=MX: Host not found, try again

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:25 PM +0200 2003/10/12, Gabor Borgulya wrote:

>  Do I have to change something in the settings of the list server? It is
>  SuSE 8.2, too. Any ideas?

	There are no MX records for this host:

% dig @pallas.sote.hu. gyoh.sote.hu. mx

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @pallas.sote.hu. gyoh.sote.hu. mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13192
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gyoh.sote.hu.                  IN      MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sote.hu.                86400   IN      SOA     pallas.sote.hu. 
root.pallas.sote.hu. 2003100801 43200 10800 604800 86400

;; Query time: 75 msec
;; SERVER: 192.160.172.6#53(pallas.sote.hu.)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 13 00:29:51 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 78


	However, there is an IP address for this machine:

% dig @pallas.sote.hu. gyoh.sote.hu. any

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @pallas.sote.hu. gyoh.sote.hu. any
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61194
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gyoh.sote.hu.                  IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gyoh.sote.hu.           86400   IN      A       193.6.208.185

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sote.hu.                86400   IN      NS      centaur.sote.hu.
sote.hu.                86400   IN      NS      sunrise.sote.hu.
sote.hu.                86400   IN      NS      ns2.sztaki.hu.
sote.hu.                86400   IN      NS      pallas.sote.hu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
pallas.sote.hu.         86400   IN      A       192.160.172.6
centaur.sote.hu.        86400   IN      A       193.225.81.46
sunrise.sote.hu.        86400   IN      A       193.6.209.46

;; Query time: 82 msec
;; SERVER: 192.160.172.6#53(pallas.sote.hu.)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 13 00:30:43 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 184


	Your MTA should be configured to fall back to the IP address, if 
there is no corresponding MX record.  You will need to change your 
MTA configuration so that it is standard-compliant in this respect.

	This is a question that you would need to ask on a mailing list 
or newsgroup specific to that MTA, and has nothing to do with the 
mailing list management software you are using.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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