Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:48:12 -0500 From: Neil W Rickert <sendmail+rickert@Sendmail.ORG> To: "Dave Wilson" <davew@sai.co.za> Cc: sendmail-questions@sendmail.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cached MX Message-ID: <13075.972488892@euclid.cs.niu.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from "Dave Wilson" <davew@sai.co.za> of "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:15:23 %2B0200." <00c001c03e42$9678b2b0$112821c4@sai.co.za> References: <00c001c03e42$9678b2b0$112821c4@sai.co.za>
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"Dave Wilson" <davew@sai.co.za> wrote: >Does sendmail cache MX entries ? At most, for the life of a single process during a queue run. >I have updated an MX record for mydomain.com on our DNS server, if I do a >"dig MX mydomain.com" it shows the new updated MX, but when I use sendmail >to try and send to mydomain.com sendmail still seems to be trying to send it >back to the old host (MX record). If that is due to MX caching, then the caching is being done by your DNS nameserver. Check '/etc/resolv.conf', then check each of the nameservers listed dig @ip-of-nameserver mydomain.com mx Also make sure that you are not using a mailertable or other special configuration to bypass the MX record. -NWR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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