MX record question ...

Jeffery Richards [2667] jrichard at mda.ca
Wed Feb 9 23:47:58 UTC 2000


I have one more question to ask ... having a bit of "fun" with the MX
records here.  I'm getting the error message:

   sendmail[17433]: PAA17433: SYSERR(root): MX list for sys2.domain.ca points
                    back to sys1.domain.ca

Sys2 is our majordomo server and sys1 is our email server.  In the zone
file I have the following:

   domain.ca.                 IN      MX      10 sys1.domain.ca.
   *.domain.ca.               IN      MX      10 sys1.domain.ca.

And also in order to keep web surfers happy because they can't seem to
remember to enter www.domain.ca but only domain.ca I have:

   domain.ca.                 IN      A       999.999.50.1

This is in addition to the regular A records:

   www.domain.ca.             IN      A       999.999.50.1
   sys1.domain.ca.            IN      A       999.999.100.1
   sys2.domain.ca.            IN      A       999.999.100.2

These are the only records I think are relevant, but I don't see how or why
the error is coming out.  Can someone perhaps explain the error message in
a bit of detail and then perhaps I can determine the cause(s).

Thanks.

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