Name Server Timeout and Sendmail

[Michael Voight]

Not your problem. It is how they configured their MX records.
Normally when I see this, and I have time, I send an email to the person
listed in the SOA or whois.

Michael Voight


Butch Kemper wrote:
> 
> My customers are having troubles sending email to axs4u.net accounts.
> When I look in the mailq, I find the messages with this error message:
> 
>      Deferred: Name server: mail.axs4u.net.: host name lookup fail
> 
> Using dig, I have found that:
> 
>    1.  Asking for the mx records for axs4u.net returns no data just a
>        status: SERVFAIL.
> 
>    2.  After locating the NS for the domain, I queried for the mx records
>        and found:
> 
>               axs4u.net.              1D IN MX        10 mail.axs4u.net.
> 
>    3.  Asking the NS for any information about mail.axs4u.net, I found:
> 
>               mail.axs4u.net.         1D IN CNAME     axs4us02.axs4u.net.
> 
>    4.  Asking the NS for any information about axs4us02.axs4u.net, I found:
> 
>               axs4us02.axs4u.net.     1D IN MX        10 mail.axs4u.net.
>               axs4us02.axs4u.net.     1D IN A         207.211.104.222
> 
> This appears to be a circular defination and that is why Sendmail is
> giving the error message?
> 
> So, are the DNS definations at axs4u.net incorrect or is there something
> wrong at my end?
> 
> On other thing, AOL seems to be able to send mail to users at axs4u.net.
> 
> Butch