[ale] Bellsouth vs. sendmail "smart host"

[Steve Tynor]

Jay Finch wrote:

| Possible reason: They're using load balancing between 2 different outgoing
| mail servers.  ANd the 2 servers have different settings?
| 
| Not sure if this would be the problem or not, but that's what it sounds
| like from a purely abstract POV.  Now the question arises: Do you alert
| the Bellsouth NOC of this potential inconsistency, or change the Smarthost
| to reflect the single server that does allow you to relay?

It's probably something like that, except that the "good" server that
always works is mail.bellsouth.net.  The "bad" servers that always fail
are mx00.mail.bellsouth.net and mx01.mail.bellsouth.net.  The problem is
that even though /etc/sendmail.cf's DS line uses the "good" server, it
seems to end up trying to talk to one of the bad ones.

Steve
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