host name not resolved

[Michael Voight]

Jeff Donovan wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> I have a strange problem which may be my ISP's issue or my box,...Im not sure.
> 
> Last night and one other time a few days ago clients in different
> domains were not able to connect to port 110 to get their mail.
> 
> looks up on mydomain.com worked
> look ups on any host within my domain failed.
> I could telnet to the box, but not on port 110.
> telnet and I could need the daemons running,..named was running and
> their were no errors :\


I am confused.. Where is the DNS error?
When you telneted, what was the error returned?

I am guessing the port 110 requests required a PTR record lookup. 

Who manages the DNS for your domain? You or the ISP

Michael Voight
CSE