[linux-help] Re: strange mail problem

[Jesse Kaufman <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

crap ... i believe i found the problem ... stratitec.com _IS_ hosted
with powweb (arg, it would be nice to be informed of this kind of stuff
being an admin and all!) ...

on powweb's DNS page, they have mail.stratitec.com being 66.152.97.37,
which is incorrect ... it looks like someone made a mail2.stratitec.com
that points to the correct IP (65.66.90.193) and added an MX record for
mail2.stratitec.com with a priority of 1 ...

(after doing some digging, we apparently use interland.net to host our
"real" DNS ... ugh ... talk about a screwy setup ...)

all of powweb's DNS servers seem to think that they should accept mail
for stratitec.com (like you mentioned) and the mail gets sent nowhere
...

after doing more digging (ugh, does no one believe in documentation???)
all the stratitec.com crap in powweb is just sitting there doing
nothing! (nslookup on stratitec.com resolves to completely different IP)

temporarily disabled powweb's DNS services on stratitec.com to see if
that makes any difference :S

-g-

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:56, Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:50, Steven Saner wrote:
> > I find this interesting:
> 
> yeah, quite ...
> 
> > Did you get my test message? mail.lloydnet.org seemed to happily
> > accept my message to your stratitec.com address. That indicates to me
> > that it either thinks that it should handle stratitec.com mail, or it
> > is acting as an open relay (both of which are bad).
> 
> nope, didn't receive anything :S
> 
> 
> > I think it may be time to talk to your hosting provider and see what
> > their logs are saying.
> 
> already in process :)
> 
> -g-
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