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On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:30:20 +0100 Simon Williams wrote: > Morning all. > > I'm having some trouble at a charity I've been helping out > (bisc.org.uk). They're using 123-reg for DNS and mail forwarding. The > MX records are set to 123-reg, then we have a bunch of A records for > the website with Hostgator. > > In the last couple of weeks, mail has been intermittently bouncing. > What I don't understand is that the bounce messages are from > Hostgator. It seems that there is some problem with the MX and so the > mail servers are falling back to delivering to the A record. Is it > possible that some mail servers are skipping the MX completely? > > I called 123reg when this first happened and they couldn't see > anything wrong. It was working again at that point, so I put it down > to someone making a mistake somewhere. Now the problem is back, but > it's still random whether it will bounce or deliver. > > To be honest, all things point to a problem with 123reg, but does > anyone have any other ideas, or know where I can get more information? > > Thanks. > Simon Do you have an @=cname entry? "If you have an @ record set to a CNAME, all other @ records (including MX) will be ignored and set to the same domain to which it points." (Warning from 123-Reg DNS management page) Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq