No possible A RRs

James A Griffin agriffin at cpcug.org
Fri Apr 6 21:24:45 UTC 2001


'doc' and 'dig' on whitneygroup.com and the serving MTA
(smtp.headwaycorp.com) all look good.  What does not look good is the
fact that you are running BIND 8.1.2. which has some serious security
holes.  Upgrade to 8.2.3-rel or 9.1.1 ASAP.  Visit www.isc.org for more
information.

Regards,
Jim


Alex Salonga wrote:
> 
>  Folks,
>  When my users can't send receive mail to the particular domain, I usually
>  find some mickey-mouse name server implementation running on the other
>  end, bad delegation cases or funky firewalls.
> 
>  In this particular case I can't see much and need confirmation and sanity
>  check
> 
>  I found in the log the following in in.named BIND 8.1.2's log:
>  named[149]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] ns_resp: query(whitneygroup.com) No possible A RRs
> 
>  My sendmail ( Version 8.9.3 with anti-spam checks enabled ) complains:
>  [801593 mail.info] BAA29821: --> 451 <someone at whitneygroup.com>... Sender domain must resolve
>  [ID 801593 mail.info] BAA29821: --> 451 <someone at whitneygroup.com>... whitneygroup.com: Name server timeout
> 
>  Can someone check and tell me if he can see anything wrong with
>  whitneygroup.com responses?
> 
>  Thnx !


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