[ale] mail troubles today

[Benjamin Conrad]

Jeff,

It doesn't look like you have a MX record for this machine....

> set type=any
> cueva.penguinpowered.com
Server:  cam-dns-auth1.bbn.com
Address:  171.78.83.150

Non-authoritative answer:
cueva.penguinpowered.com        internet address = 24.88.36.13
> set type=mx
> cueva.penguinpowered.com
Server:  cam-dns-auth1.bbn.com
Address:  171.78.83.150

*** cam-dns-auth1.bbn.com can't find cueva.penguinpowered.com: Non-existent
host/domain



____________________________________
Ben Conrad
NT Administrator, NOS Team
GTE Internetworking
617.873.5146
bconrad at bbn.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Dilcher [mailto:dilcher at cueva.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 2:25 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] mail troubles today
>
>
> Hello all.
>
> I have a linux box in the net' which has
> qmail running, and is called cueva.penguinpowered.com.
>
> It should be receiving mail (it has in the past) via
> Qmail which I installed.
>
> Today I couldn't send mail to the box from other
> sites.  Here is the bounced mail message:
>
> jdilcher at cueva.penguinpowered.com... Deferred: Name server:
> cueva.penguinpowered.com.: host name lookup failure
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> Will keep trying until message is 1 week old
>
> Seems like the sender's box can't lookup the hostname,
> but if I run nslookup, I see the proper TCP address
> gets displayed.
>
> Anyone know what could be happening?  This is happening
> from more than one sender site, so I think the problem
> must be with my dns somehow, or my box.
>
> Thanks!
>
>