>Can you have IMail use another recursive DNS?

As a rule, we do not alow recursion on our DNS. I do not know of any,
maybe earthlink, that might allow recursion. I wouldn't know how to tell
imail to use another DNS server that allows recursion anyways. Do you?

>Can you take the list of ip's and from another machine telnet to port
25 of 
>each one and get an SMTP welcome banner from Hotmail MX?

I am having difficulty using telnet to login to hotmail. Can you break
down your question for me, I am not sure I understand your question?

Hmmm...Why would my DNS be telling us stale nameserver entries at
hotmail?

J.J. Beatrice, President
Commandline Media, LLC
http://www.commandlinemedia.com/
877-306-8777 TF
California
310-306-8777 T
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440-684-0483 T/F
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] hotmail rejection???


>If it was a DNS problem on our end, what would you guess it might be?

commandline.net has no DNS errors, so Hotmail shouldn't be having any 
problem validating you in DNS.

>The TTL on our end? Meaning we have updates, albeit old data, still in
>our nameserver, which might be the reason that the IP's are not valid
on
>the Hotmail side...? I am not sure.

easy to fix, just stop and start your NS, which zeroes the cache of
stale 
or poisoned data.

>  I did a DNS report at
>http://www.dnsreport.com/ and got good scores for commandline.net,
>however, when I did it the first time it recommended that I set my SOA
>to expire after 14 days, do you think that could have anything to do
>with the Hotmail rejecetions?

no.   Hotmail isn't "rejecting" SMTP-lyyou via a policy. You have tcp/ip

"stack connect" failures trying to establish TCP/SMTP with ip's that
your 
DNS is telling Imail are the Hotmail MX hostname ip's.

Can you have IMail use another recursive DNS?

Can you take the list of ip's and from another machine telnet to port 25
of 
each one and get an SMTP welcome banner from Hotmail MX?

Len


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