Strange domain issues - waterco.com.my

Elias elias at streamyx.com
Thu May 24 12:31:38 UTC 2007


Hi guys,
We've been unable to send mails to waterco.com.my and mails always bounce back saying that its a DNS issue. Digging further, we can get a response via 'dig waterco.com.my' but no responses via 'dig @ns1.waterco.com.my waterco.com.my mx' or 'dig @ns2.waterco.com.my waterco.com.my mx'. Is there any logic to this? We seem to think that its probably some weird firewall issue but have no experience troubleshooting these cases.

# dig waterco.com.my mx

; <<>> DiG 9.4.0 <<>> waterco.com.my mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1197
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;waterco.com.my.                        IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
waterco.com.my.         3600    IN      MX      10 mx.waterco.com.my.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
waterco.com.my.         3597    IN      NS      ns2.waterco.com.my.
waterco.com.my.         3597    IN      NS      ns1.waterco.com.my.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mx.waterco.com.my.      3600    IN      A       60.51.231.187

;; Query time: 14 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 24 20:16:10 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 103


# dig @ns1.waterco.com.my waterco.com.my mx

; <<>> DiG 9.4.0 <<>> @ns1.waterco.com.my waterco.com.my mx
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


I've contacted the domain owner but they seem to say that everything's alright at their end. Can anybody help verify if you guys are also seing the same thing? Any assistance rendered is greatly appreciated. Thanks!




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