VanLUG Email Archive
Alan Hodgson (ahodgson@simkin.com)
Sun, 9 May 1999 10:26:04 -0700
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 08:50:42PM -0700, falstaff@lennon.postino.com wrote:
>
> 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.
Or not.
> 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.
Yeah, but they have like 5 of them, and they all seem to serve up valid data.
> 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. ;-)
As much as I dislike Exchange, this is not an Exchange problem. It is
a problem with the resolver on the sending host somehow, although poking
around immediately after the original post I could not find a problem.
-- Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
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