No route was found for the recipient server.

No route was found for the recipient server.

Postby stephen » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:18 pm

Emails to a user@daslog.com.cn is being rejected with this message.
No route was found for the recipient server. Please contact your system administrator.

The problem was that the daslog.com.cn had no valid MX record to indicate where to send the email.

eg
from Windows type nslookup
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C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen>nslookup
Default Server:  73-241.dsl.connexus.net.au
Address:  224.222.73.241

> set type=mx
> daslog.com.cn
Server:  daslog.com.cn
Address:  208.67.216.132

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to daslog.com.cn timed-out
> exit


or from Linux type dig daslog.com.cn MX
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[root@ecs03 ~]# dig daslog.com.cn MX

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> daslog.com.cn MX
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 31418
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;daslog.com.cn.                 IN      MX

;; Query time: 200 msec
;; SERVER: 203.222.73.178#53(203.222.73.178)
;; WHEN: Mon Mar 23 16:57:07 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31
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