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Subject: Re: multilog-watch, qmail-remote, and "Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference..."
From: Dave Sill <de5@sws5.ornl.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:36:16 -0400
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Kyle Wheeler <kyle-qmail@memoryhole.net> wrote:

>On Monday, June  4 at 03:51 PM, quoth Dave Sill:
>
>> $ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote sws5.ornl.gov root@sws5.ornl.gov 
>> root@sws5.ornl.gov 
>> DSorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that 
>> host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as 
>> local. (#5.4.6) 
>
>Hmm, so, that message is generated by perm_ambigmx() in qmail-remote, 
>after comparing the IP in ipme to all of the MX records it found for 
>the host. The ipme is filled by looking at the output of ioctl with 
>the SIOCGIFCONF argument.
>
>So my guess would be that you have a DNS issue: your machine either 
>thinks its IP address is not 160.91.218.105 (unlikely, but worth 
>checking), or it thinks that sws5.ornl.gov's MX record resolves to 
>something other than that (e.g. it could resolve to 127.0.0.1).

$ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:72:1D:0A:62  
          inet addr:160.91.218.105  Bcast:160.91.219.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:72ff:fe1d:a62/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:30484331 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:53802584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:653996188 (623.6 MiB)  TX bytes:636196097 (606.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:177 
$ dnsmx sws5.ornl.gov
10 sws5.ornl.gov
$ dnsip sws5.ornl.gov
160.91.218.105 
$

I still don't get it.

-Dave

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