MX problem....

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 9 17:38:29 UTC 1999


It is an error in your mx records.

Barrow Kwan wrote:
> 
> It might be some configuration error in sendmail, but any help will be
> appreciated...
> 
> here is the error I got...
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <bhkwan at kiloton.thoughtworks.net>
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 MX list for kiloton.thoughtworks.net. points back to
> gigaton.thoughtworks.net
> 554 <bhkwan at kiloton.thoughtworks.net>... Local configuration error

It is telling you that the A records for kiloton and gigaton are the
same. 
In this case, you should simply set the MX record for kiloton to
kiloton.

Michael Voight
Cisco TAC


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