[linux-help] Re: strange mail problem

[Jesse Kaufman <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

... and the problem is solved ... :)

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:21, Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> 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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