[pmwiki-users] Re: [OT] Strange list DNS issues

[Robin]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:52, you wrote:
> didn't have an MX record defined -- I don't know how/when that happened
> but I've fixed it now.  Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
It doesn't appear to be fixed:
$ host -t MX pmichaud.com
$ host -t A pmichaud.com
pmichaud.com has address 64.28.111.141
$ host -a pmichaud.com
Trying "pmichaud.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48564
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pmichaud.com.                  IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pmichaud.com.           2994    IN      A       64.28.111.141
pmichaud.com.           38320   IN      NS      ns2.apolloservers.com.
pmichaud.com.           38320   IN      NS      ns1.apolloservers.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pmichaud.com.           38320   IN      NS      ns2.apolloservers.com.
pmichaud.com.           38320   IN      NS      ns1.apolloservers.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.apolloservers.com.  56098   IN      A       64.28.101.11
ns2.apolloservers.com.  211668  IN      A       64.28.101.20

Received 156 bytes from 192.168.0.1#53 in 1904 ms

> Many mail handlers default to an A record if an MX record is not
> defined, but I remember reading somewhere that this behavior is
> deprecated and that they aren't supposed to do this.
Hmm, OK. I hadn't heard that, but then again I haven't looked for it 
either.

Also, I've just noticed that my DNS caching system on the LAN seems to be 
returning server failures when it probably shouldn't be. I might have to 
go and tune it some, as that could be exacerbating things at my end a 
bit.

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Robin <robin at kallisti.net.nz>             JabberID: <eythian at jabber.org>

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