"MX OK" (says register.com) Was: [Pigdog] Re: [CrackMonkey] Instruments of inquisition, or... !Help, I'm being tried in ignorance (again)

[George J.P. Perry]

I omitted that register.com had verified that we'd correctly set our
mx-record.  They're suggesting that it's our box that's dropping the
letter -- even though I receive return-refusals from dns'es that
<mail..org> is a host uknown.  

What tools of inquiry there are, if I could have at them, I would.  

-g

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Monkey Master wrote:
> Subject: [Pigdog] Re: [CrackMonkey] Instruments of inquisition, or... !Help,
>      I'm being tried in ignorance (again)
> 
> 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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