Interesting--now my lookup succeeds. I also note that one of the
nameservers appears to have a misspelling (which is not just a
transcription error by Ray). One is "tradeneTsl.lk" the other is just
"trandenesl.lk".
The ISP may be updating DNS as we speak. Try this again in a day or
two.
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> Not quite. Unless this problem was just corrected, I cannot duplicate the MX
> failure David reports. Here are my results from nslookup, run from my ISP's
> server:
>
> bash-2.01$ nslookup
> Default Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
> > set type=MX
> > metta.lk
> Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> metta.lk preference = 10, mail exchanger = 204.143.107.46
>
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> metta.lk nameserver = server1.tradenetsl.lk
> metta.lk nameserver = edb.tradenesl.lk
> server1.tradenetsl.lk internet address = 204.143.107.34
>
> Since I have no difficulty sending mail directly to Jacob at metta.lk, it is
> unsurprising that I can find the machine. It does suggest that the problem
> is not general, though, but either specific to yahoo or intermittant. Note
> in my nslookup report that two nameservers are listed by name but only one
> has an associated IP address - this suggests a problem at the ISP that is
> serving metta.lk (and providing its DNS), not at metta.lk itself. Possibly
> yahoo is pickier about the absence of a nameserver than relays in general are?
>
> At 08:51 PM 5/28/99 -0700, David Rysdam wrote:
> >It means that the domain "metta.lk" doesn't have an MX (mail exchanger)
> >record in the DNS system. I confirmed this using nslookup like so:
> >
> >%nslookup <return>
> >>set type=MX
> >>metta.lk
> >***cannot find host/domain
> >
> >This means that, if there is a machine accepting mail for metta.lk,
> >there isn't a way to reach it by name. This is not a yahoo problem, but
> >a problem with metta.lk.
>
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