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falstaff@lennon.postino.com
Fri, 7 May 1999 20:50:42 -0700 (PDT)
Three things I see. 1 - they are using a domain name ball.com , rather
than a fully qualified host. I am sure this breaks an RFC somewhere.
2 - a dig on saturn.ball.com shows really short expire times. 10 minutes.
If the nameserver was down for more than 10 minutes you would have trouble.
and 3 - a telnet to their smtp port shows:
# telnet aeromsg1.ball.com smtp
Trying 162.18.83.45...
Connected to aeromsg1.ball.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 aeromsg1.ball.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service 5.5.2448.0) ready
quit
221 closing connection
Say no more. ;-)
Danny Aldham Postino Dotcom E-mail for Business
www.postino.com Virtual Servers, Mail Lists, Web Databases, SQL & Perl
>
> Hi, all.
>
> Mail sent to two colleagues at Ball Aerospace via the NEC-LIST reflector
> in Electrical Engineering almost invariably never gets delivered.
>
> Mail sent directly to them from my EE account seems to make it through.
> And nslookup reports the IP address for ball.com correctly:
> ---------
> $ nslookup ball.com
> Server: dns.ece.ubc.ca
> Address: 137.82.52.9
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name: ball.com
> Address: 162.18.75.8
> ----------
>
> I'm really puzzled. Any ideas?
>
> Here's the report I got back after the latest retry of my latest
> message:
>
> ---------
> dpaschen@ball.com,,solson@ball.com... Deferred: Name server: ball.com.:
> host name lookup failure
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns; fs3.ece.ubc.ca
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:31:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; davem@fs3.ece.ubc.ca
> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; dpaschen@ball.com
> Action: delayed
> Status: 4.4.3
> Remote-MTA: DNS; ball.com
> Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:55:05 -0700 (PDT)
> Will-Retry-Until: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:31:39 -0700 (PDT)
> -----------
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dave Michelson
> dmichelson@home.com
>
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