Getting message "Too Many Hops"

[Mathias Körber]

It might be a wrong DNS configuration, but that is unlikely
(more likely is abad mail system configuration).
	-> you may have to ask (with more detail) in a mail-related forum
	like comp.mail.misc or similar..

What seems to be happening is that mail bounces between two (or loops
among three or more) servers instead of being finally delivered.
One of the mailservers will refuse to further process the mail if it =
detects that
it has travelled more than a certai number of hops (I seem to remember =
18
as the common limit). This is to prevent mail looping for ever.

You should be able to identify the systems involved in the loop from the
headers of the mail, if the mailer that stopped it accurately quotes the =
complete
mail...

But we can't say much more here without more details:
	- what domain/email addresses are involved?
	- what are your nameservers (name, ip addresses etc)
	- which are your mailservers

regards

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> Behalf Of Law
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 08:36
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Getting message "Too Many Hops"
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> I'm not sure if this is a DNS issue or a MS Exchange issue.  But=20
> I setup my
> DNS server
> to point the MX record to my Exchange mail box.  Everytime I send=20
> email from
> the outside
> to my new email box I get a reply that it failed because there=20
> are too many
> hops.
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> Please help!
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> Lawrence
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