Re: [cobalt-users] MX Records and failover servers

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:23 pm, Chris Bell wrote:
> At 05:49 AM 23/05/2002 -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote:
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> I set it up as follows:
>
> - where domain.com is the default domain on my server; and
> - mail.vdomain.com is a hostname pointing to the third party mail server;
>
> I set up my DNS as such
>
> vdomain.com IN A IP.IP.IP.IP (IP address of Raq server)
>       IN MX mail.vdomain.com priority=5
>       IN MX domain.com priority=10
>
> If i lose a route from my local SMTP to mail.vdomain.com (which is quite
> common in Australia), it will get sent to domain.com which will then
> forward it to mail.vdomain.com, as long as it can see it. If it can't see
> it (e.g. because mail.vdomain.com is actually down as opposed to my
> connection to it), the mail bounces with an "MX loops back to me" error.

Did you tell domain.com to relay for mail.vdomain.com?

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