The domino uses wrong MX record

Hi all,

My user is trying to send email to xxx@jen.com.cn, nslookup on the mail server (domino 8.5.1 FP4 w2k3 x64) as below.

jen.com.cn MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mxa105z.chinaemail.cn

jen.com.cn MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx105z.chinaemail.cn

but the domino always sending to Jen.com.cn by MX record MX.ZMAIL.NET.CN instead of mxa105z.chinaemail.cn/mx105z.chinaemail.cn. therefore an email bounce back with the content…

Final-Recipient: rfc822;ksmzsales5@jen.com.cn

Action: failed

Status: 5.0.0

Remote-MTA: smtp;MX.ZMAIL.NET.CN

Diagnostic-Code: X-Notes; 550 no such user here (ce mta)

I have updated router, restarted the server… but the issue still persist.

Can someone let me know what am i wrong?

Thanks.

Subject: resend?

If they are issuing a resend on the message, it might still have the “next step” recorded on the message. Try sending a brand new message.

Check and see what nslookup returns on the user PC as well. I don’t think it pulls from there at all, but worth checking.

Check the source on the returned message. While your ns might return mx1.jen.com.cn , some other server in the path might be forwarding that to mx.badservername.com . It might not be your ns that is wrong, but one further along the trail.

Subject: cont.

Hi,

I have tried to resend, do new send for many times but it unsolved, at that time nslookup on the server and client always correct…

Subject: This might be related

Hi Lucky

Firstly, check out this technote :

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21386420

If that doesn’t help, I might be able to explain the difference in DNS nslookup and what domino sees. I notice your running Windows. It has a DNS cache service that, from experience, isn’t queried by nslookup but is used by other API calls. So if this DNS cache becomes corrupted with invalid values then some applications might behave badly.

Stop the router service, then try restarting the Windows “DNS Client” service. Next start the router service and see if that improves things

kind regards

Simon Delicata

Subject: The issue is solved.

Hi Simon Delicata,

I followed the article and it helped to solve http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc%2FDOC%2FH_CREATING_A_FOREIGN_SMTP_DOMAIN_DOCUMENT_STEPS.html

I did an update the destination SMTP existing and it worked.

Thanks,