Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!hubcap
From: hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: MX loops...
Message-ID: <3966@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 04:44:22 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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In an example near the end of rfc974 it sez:

 *  There are once again three MX RRs for A.EXAMPLE.ORG, but in this case the
 *  mailer must discard the RRs for itself...

The context is that a mailer on B wants to send to A, and A has 3 mx records,
one for A, one for B and one for C. Of course B wouldn't want to use the mx
record for B.

Well, I have a problem... I have an exactly analogous situation - only
B *IS NOT DISCARDING* the RRs for itself! 

I want mail for A to come and sit on B's queue until A comes back up, or
until the mail times out. Instead, mail is bouncing, because B is trying to
start a loop with itself.

I have sendmail 5.59 - I guess I just though the code that handles MX would
do the right thing. Can any of you think of what I might be doing wrong?


thanks...

-Mike Marshall      hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu