Thanks for the response. You gave me the clue that i needed to fix the problem... You said: 'The whole point of the DNS is for the server to do that work, not the client. James is just a DNS client.'
And i realized, that in my foolishness, i wasn't using my isp's dns servers, but some root dns servers that won't do that work. (eg: A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) Now that i'm using my isp's dns servers, they are doing the work of 'de-referencing' the authoritative records and obtaining the MX-records that james needs. Thanks again, --mark imel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:51 AM Subject: RE: Resolving MXs > > BTW: I'm using the dns 1.2.3 which is compatible with James2.1. > > We have replacement dns code that I wanted to get more testing on before > putting it out, so I'll put up a test build for you to try. > > I'm wondering about one of your local dns servers not giving you the correct > results. What software is running the DNS on each of your servers? We have > bind 8 running on one gateway, and bind 9 running elsewhere. The whole > point of the DNS is for the server to do that work, not the client. James > is just a DNS client. > > --- Noel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Imel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:11 > To: James Users List > Subject: Re: Resolving MXs > > > Thanks for the response Noel, > > Its not clear to me that just letting the dns library try again solves the > problem. I'm having this problem with a number of domains and as a result, > getting a lot of emails bounced back as undeliverable due to this reason. > > To me, it seems like either i've really messed up my config, or its a bug > with the DNSServer class. And after stepping through the code, i'm leaning > towards the latter. > > IMHO (i'm just a james-newbie, so i'm quite likely to be mistaken), i feel > that if the DNS records come back with no answers, but some authoritative > sources for MX records, those returned authoritative sources should be > queried instead of querying the exact same source. > > Regards, > --mark > > BTW: I'm using the dns 1.2.3 which is compatible with James2.1. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:32 AM > Subject: RE: Resolving MXs > > > > Mark, > > > > Are you using the version of dnsjava that came with James, or the newer > > version? Those are typically transient. I've seen 25 of them since > > mid-August (yes, I grepped the logs). They invariably clear up on the > > second attempt. > > > > I ran the same thing, and got this: > > > > $ java -cp dnsjava-1.3.2.jar dig hotmail.com mx > > ; java dig 0.0 > > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: STATUS, status: NOERROR, id: 25218 > > ;; flags: qr rd ra ; qd: 1 an: 4 au: 4 ad: 14 > > ;; QUESTIONS: > > ;; hotmail.com., type = MX, class = IN > > > > ;; ANSWERS: > > hotmail.com. 3248 IN MX 5 mx2.hotmail.com. > > hotmail.com. 3248 IN MX 5 mx3.hotmail.com. > > hotmail.com. 3248 IN MX 5 mx4.hotmail.com. > > hotmail.com. 3248 IN MX 5 mx1.hotmail.com. > > > > ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: > > hotmail.com. 63491 IN NS ns1.hotmail.com. > > hotmail.com. 63491 IN NS NS2.hotmail.com. > > hotmail.com. 63491 IN NS NS3.hotmail.com. > > hotmail.com. 63491 IN NS NS4.hotmail.com. > > > > ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: > > mx2.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.254.145 > > mx2.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.252.230 > > mx2.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.166.230 > > mx3.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.254.140 > > mx3.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.253.99 > > mx4.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.254.151 > > mx4.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.253.230 > > mx1.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.254.129 > > mx1.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.252.99 > > mx1.hotmail.com. 3248 IN A 65.54.166.99 > > ns1.hotmail.com. 63491 IN A 216.200.206.140 > > NS2.hotmail.com. 63491 IN A 216.200.206.139 > > NS3.hotmail.com. 63491 IN A 209.185.130.68 > > NS4.hotmail.com. 63491 IN A 64.4.29.24 > > > > ;; done (405 bytes) > > > > I was able to reproduce those results with both v1.2.3 and v1.3.2 of > > dnsjava, on both Windows XP and linux. > > > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
