[CrackMonkey] Instruments of inquisition, or... !Help, I'm being tried in ignorance (again)

[Monkey Master]

begin  George J.P. Perry quotation:
> This message may not reach "tech".  I receive reply-refusals to the effect
> "host <mail.lyingscumbags.org> not found"... 
> 
> ... when I telnet, though, to <mail..org> port twenty-five (25)... then I
> chat briefly & agreeably with a computer at [63.92.23.192] through its 
> sendmail service.  And then I read tech's mail from me.  
> 
> Representatives of <register.com> assure me that they'd established
> "c-name" & "a-record" (which they call "ip-record") connectivity of
> <mail..org> to [63..192]... and that enough dozen hours have passed since
> their latest (third, as it's happened) ministry... 

	"IP record" is probably more modern and appropriate, since the
A stood for ARPAnet.  BIND was designed with many networks in mind
(such as the horrible bloat-by-committee ISO protocols), so it was
specific about the addressing schemes.

	As I said, it sounds to me like you need to fix your MX
records:



; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> mx lyingscumbags.org 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	lyingscumbags.org, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lyingscumbags.org.	1H IN MX	20 mail.lyingscumbbags.org.
lyingscumbags.org.	1H IN MX	10 mail.lyingscumbbags.org.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lyingscumbags.org.	1H IN NS	dns3.register.com.
lyingscumbags.org.	1H IN NS	dns4.register.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns3.register.com.	10M IN A	209.67.50.253
dns4.register.com.	10M IN A	209.67.50.254

;; Total query time: 104 msec
;; FROM: zork to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 16 16:22:05 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 35  rcvd: 172

	See there?  It says "mail.lyingscumbbags.org" in the MX lines.
You need to get rid of one of the "b"s.

	Also, why have two MX's to the same host?  Point one of them
to zork.net and zork will happily be your 20-priority MX.

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