Problems with Mail to erdoc.org
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Thu Mar 11 21:27:22 UTC 2004
I wrote:
>> I have a problem sending mail to a domain
>>
>> erdoc.org
>>
>> After lots of DNS queries, I think I have found the problem.
>> The .org servers
>>
>> tld[12].ultradns.org
>>
>> list the nameservers for erdoc.org as
>>
>> dns[12].firehousehosting.net
>>
>> BUT the real nameservers for that domain are
>>
>> ns[12].firehousehosting.net (without the initial "d")
>>
>> What I can not understand is this - when I query
>>
>> dig erdoc.org MX
>>
>> sometimes I get SERVFAIL:
>....
>> and sometimes I get an answer:
>....
>> I would have expected SERVFAIL each time. Can someone explain what
>> is happening? I sent mail to firehousehosting.net, and they said
and Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu replied:
>I think the reason is that the firehousehosting.net domain has the same
>inconsistency between the delegation records and the NS records on the
>authoritative servers. The problem is that there are no glue records
>for the ns[12].firehousehosting.net hostnames.
When I went to dnsreport.com and ran a report on erdoc.org, the
report mentioned the nameservers
ns[12].firehousehosting.net
>From where did dnsreport get its information? That is what I cannot
determine. The .org nameservers do not contain any referral to these
two servers.
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Barry S. Finkel
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