Bryan Rehbein wrote: > All - > > I have been trying to access the dspam website for over a week, without > success. I can access http://www.nuclearelephant.com/ just fine, > however it just redirects to http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/ which is > unaccessible. I cannot find any DNS records on the couple root DNS > servers I have tried (both 'c' and 'd' root servers). I did find a DNS > with the A record cached and was able to hard code the address in a > /etc/hosts file, however I was wondering if anybody else in the US was > having these issues, or if my ISP is silently redirecting my DNS traffic. > > Bryan
Interesting. The site dnsstuff.com agrees that there is a problem: [ERROR: The parent servers say that the domain dspam.nuclearelephant.com does not have any NS records (although they may have some other information on that zone). I can not do a DNS report on a hostname (such as mail.example.com) or a domain name that does not have its own zone.] but I can do it from here (Australia) $ dig +trace dspam.nuclearelephant.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> +trace dspam.nuclearelephant.com ;; global options: printcmd . 418534 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS j.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS k.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 418534 IN NS b.root-servers.net. ;; Received 488 bytes from 203.4.201.44#53(203.4.201.44) in 0 ms com. 172800 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 499 bytes from 192.33.4.12#53(c.root-servers.net) in 186 ms nuclearelephant.com. 172800 IN NS aplus01.us.gntc.com. ;; Received 89 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 254 ms dspam.nuclearelephant.com. 1200 IN A 82.165.184.162 nuclearelephant.com. 1200 IN NS 206.225.81.170. ;; Received 87 bytes from 206.225.81.170#53(aplus01.us.gntc.com) in 170 ms Local NS tells me what the root servers are, dig chooses c to ask about com. then chooses A to ask about nuclearelephant.com then asks aplus01.us.gntc.com about the dspam subdomain. Can you try a dig from where you are and see what you get? As an aside, if anyone knows how to get sendmail to forward all mail to a smarthost except for a set of specified domains I'd really appreciate it. All the information I've found so far seems to suggest that it is an "all-or-nothing" proposition.
