MX records are for incoming mail. All our incoming mail uses the MX records for the NY office.
Something seems to be screwy with AT&T as: nothing on our sub-net seems to resolve; and I've been waiting literally for hours waiting to talk to someone there. -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Candee Vaglica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/26/2008 03:30:03 PM: > Have you checked your DNS? > www.dnsreport.com > I'm not sure I"m understanding you correctly, but there is no MX > record for mwro.aspca.org > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > We are the mid-west office of the ASPCA (Illinois). Our HQ is in NYC. Our > > wires, DNS, etc are via AT&T. Their wires, DNS, etc are through > > QualityTech. As NY is the parent office (to say nothing of older and > > bigger), the QualityTech system is the SOA for ASPCA.ORG. For the > > Illinois public addresses (including the IP address stamped onto all our > > outgoing email), we have NS records on the QualityTech system pointing our > > network (mwro.aspca.org) to the AT&T name servers. All had been well the > > past several months... > > > > Last week, attempts to send mail to various corporations and educational > > institutions has been bouncing. The headers of our bounce notices say > > simply "Failed to connect to SMTP host COMPANY.COM because: Remote system > > no longer responding" > > > > One company told us it is because the IP address is not resolving > > properly... > > > > I have checked the DNS tables for QualityTech, and they do show "mwro" > > being delegated to a pair of AT&T DNS servers. I have checked the DNS > > tables for AT&T, and we do have records in both forward and reverse lookup > > zones (br.mwro.aspca.org <-> 12.15.29.130). > > > > Any ideas (while I wait and wait and wait to talk to AT&T)? The Boss > > suggests the "fix" for last month's "DNS Poisoning" might have "fixed" > > things so that anything claiming to be from [anything].aspca.org must > > resolve to a QualityTech address and not to an AT&T address. Still, I > > don't see that we can do much to fix this... > > > > We are considering using a VPN tunnel to try to use a NY machine as an > > outgoing SMTP server. What else might we try? > > > > Other folks experiencing this? > > > > Thanks!!!!! > > -------------------------------------- > > Richard McClary, Systems Administrator > > ASPCA Knowledge Management > > 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 > > 217-337-9761 > > http://www.aspca.org > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
