Can''t get an error to go away

Re: Can''t get an error to go away

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What mail server is giving the error? What mail server is issuing this error? The destination server, or an outgoing server?

If it's not the server that just rebooted, then I'd guess that other server has cached the faulty MX record. With your TTL of 86400 (1 day), you can expect to wait until a full day has passed since the original lookup that found this bad MX record before it gets purged and things start working correctly.

If that isn't it, you'll have to give a more complete description of what exactly happened.

At 11:24 AM -0800 12/3/99, Stormy Knight wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I had an error in an MX record, an incorrect MX domain name.
>I sent mail to the domain name and received back.
>" ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>550 <Robert.Coleman@colemanpublishing.com>... Host unknown (Name server:
>nerporium.com.: host not found)"
>Actual domain is netporium.com.
>I corrected the MX error in the DNS record.
>The problem continued.
>I removed the DNS record, rewrote it. Problem continued. Restarted. Problem
>continued. Restarted and rebuilt desk top. Problem continued. Changed
>preferences from back up copies for both EIMS and Quick DNS. Problem
>continued. Tried every other variation on a theme I could think of. Problem
>continued.
>Something somewhere is caching incorrect info for a DNS record when mail is
>processed but 2 1/2 hours of looking for that place has yet to turn this
>up. Where would a DNS error be able to hide? I thought that each reference
>to a domain is searched for in the primary datafile but I was obviously
>wrong. Anyone who has a clue please drop me a line.
>I was thinking of setting up WebStar's mail functionality to see if it
>would go around this, but that could be many more hours with no guarantee
>that that would solve the problem since I haven't even been able to
>pinpoint whether this is an EIMS or a QDNS problem.
>I have numerous other mail accounts for other domains working perfectly,
>BTW, and setting up new mail accounts is usually a 5 minute job.
>Quick DNS Pro Server 1.1.2, EIMS 1.1.2, Mac 7250/120.
>=======================================================
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>Stormy Knight

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