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On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, |
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> catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, |
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> baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I |
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> wasn't able to get it fixed until very recently. Since baby went down, |
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> camille has been our server. But now baby is back up again, and acting |
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> as a server, and everything has been going well except this: camille |
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> and catherine as still trying to send mail from cron jobs to camille |
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> instead of to baby. AFAIK I've updated all the appropriate DNS records |
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> on all machines, so how can I fix this? Is it possible to set camille's |
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> exim to forward all mail it receives to the equivalent accounts on baby? |
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This bothers me: |
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camille log # dig camille.espersunited.com MX |
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; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> camille.espersunited.com MX |
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;; global options: printcmd |
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;; Got answer: |
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;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58323 |
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;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 |
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;; QUESTION SECTION: |
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;camille.espersunited.com. IN MX |
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;; AUTHORITY SECTION: |
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espersunited.com. 3600 IN SOA camille.espersunited.com. |
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michael.baby.espersunited.com. 1 10800 3600 604800 3600 |
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;; Query time: 0 msec |
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;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) |
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;; WHEN: Thu Oct 2 08:44:58 2008 |
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;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 91 |
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baby ~ # dig baby.espersunited.com MX |
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; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> baby.espersunited.com MX |
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;; global options: printcmd |
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;; Got answer: |
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;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23312 |
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;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 |
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;; QUESTION SECTION: |
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;baby.espersunited.com. IN MX |
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;; ANSWER SECTION: |
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baby.espersunited.com. 10800 IN MX 1 baby.espersunited.com. |
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;; AUTHORITY SECTION: |
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espersunited.com. 10800 IN NS baby.espersunited.com. |
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;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: |
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baby.espersunited.com. 10800 IN A 192.168.1.2 |
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;; Query time: 6 msec |
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;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) |
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;; WHEN: Thu Oct 2 08:45:47 2008 |
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;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 85 |
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As you can see, the request for baby's dig info returns an MX record to |
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baby, but camille's returns no MX record. AFAICT the MX section of both |
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db.espersunited.com files is identical. So why does one return an MX |
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record, and the other doesn't? |
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