can anyone tell me what is wrong with my subdomains?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c9le43$78q$1 at sf1.isc.org>, phil-news-nospam at ipal.net wrote:

> On 2 Jun 2004 09:07:35 -0700 Jog Dial <jogdial at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> | I have setup two subdomains from my domain.  My domain is
> | 
> | emtex.com
> | 
> | The subdomains are
> | 
> | uk.emtex.com
> | us.emtex.com
> | 
> | Some mailers are still refusing to send email to us saying
> | non-existant domain.
> | 
> | I have tested both of subdomains using dig against both nameserver,
> | ns.emtex.com and ns.cerbernet.co.uk and they both come back with
> | noerror.  Can anyone see what is wrong?  Many people can email us... a
> | few can't.  I have been looking at this for 3 days and thought I had
> | it all working ok last night, but then someone again had problems
> | today.  Could they have bad cached data?
> 
> They could have old cached data.  What was the TTL of the old data when
> you made the change, and when did you make the change.  Add the TTL to the
> time of change and see when that is.  Still, some networks are forcing
> higher TTL values, and you may have identified some of them.

Someone *finally* posts a question using the actual domain names, and 
you don't bother to investigate to see the real problem (see my earlier 
response)?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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