sendmail does not find mx record for aclvb.be

[Kevin Darcy]

Kevin Darcy wrote:

>Roland Vlerick wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am unable to send mail to the domain aclvb.be. I am using sendmail
>>8.11.2
>>My dns servers are BIND 9.2.0.
>>
>>I tried finding out, from  some webservers who offer a nslookup, dig
>>service I sometimes receive the MX record and IP and sometimes not.
>>
>>Why is there a difference and what is wrong with the aclvb.be domain.
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>Looks like ns.arta.be is claiming authority for the root zone:
>
>fwiod01.is.chrysler.com% dig aclvb.be mx
>
>
>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> aclvb.be mx
>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;; QUERY SECTION:
>;;      aclvb.be, type = MX, class = IN
>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>aclvb.be.               1D IN MX        10 a.mx.aclvb.be.
>
>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>..                       3D IN NS        ns.arta.be.
>
>;; Total query time: 862 msec
>;; FROM: fwiod01.is.chrysler.com to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
>;; WHEN: Wed Dec 11 19:13:05 2002
>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 26  rcvd: 68
>                                          
>This is very *very* bad. This nameserver is also not returning the A 
>record for a.mx.aclvb.be in the response to the MX query, thus further 
>compounding the problem.
>
>                                                                        
>                        - Kevin
>
Sorry to followup my own post, but I just want to point out that the 
line in the "dig" output above which starts with two periods was 
originally sent with one period and got munged (erroneously I believe) 
by some mailer along the way...

                                                                        
                                    - Kevin