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Does anyone know how to make postfix avoid getting into an endless loop of errors when a remote mx server resolves to 0.0.0.0 ?

The problem sounds exactly like that described here: mail loops back to myself | postfix but i'm looking for a fix, as this makes postfix use 100% cpu.

Hoping this is a fairly simple tweak to the postfix config.

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What version of Postfix are you running? If it isn't recent, try to upgrade to the latest stable version as there are advanced checks if there's something wrong with DNS.

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  • 2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 Upgrading may be painful, but i'll look into it.
    – Sirex
    Dec 21, 2010 at 9:55
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I've had this problem but with an old application handling reverse DNS names badly, I used a small DNS filter proxy to remove bad requests. This is the same technique with twisted and python to filter A records. I only had about 100 dns request per second but had no performance issues.

The day after people told me I should have used LD_PRELOAD instead. :-) But my C isn't that great.

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