On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > Their mail server (white.spiritone.com) is off-line (cannot ping it) but > my outbound mail, which must be relayed through them, goes out.
David/Ken, et al.: I sent a message directly to one of their tech supporters who's been really helpful. The addres is '[email protected]' while the message is addressed to one employee. An acknowledgement of my message came in so some portions of their mail server must be working. Right? Here's my test: $ dig spiritone.com MX ; <<>> DiG 9.10.5-P3 <<>> spiritone.com MX ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32653 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;spiritone.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: spiritone.com. 906 IN MX 10 mx.spiritone.com. spiritone.com. 906 IN MX 30 mx2.spiritone.com. ;; Query time: 37 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Sun Oct 01 09:26:53 PDT 2017 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 81 [rshepard@salmo ~]$ ping mx.spiritone.com PING mx.spiritone.com (216.99.193.22) 56(84) bytes of data. --- mx.spiritone.com ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7999ms [rshepard@salmo ~]$ ping mx2.spiritone.com PING mx2.spiritone.com (216.99.193.24) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mx2.spiritone.com (216.99.193.24): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=38.1 ms 64 bytes from mx2.spiritone.com (216.99.193.24): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=35.7 ms 64 bytes from mx2.spiritone.com (216.99.193.24): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=35.3 ms ^C --- mx2.spiritone.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.362/36.427/38.187/1.263 ms Those who know more about networks than I might be able to explain why all mail services to their primary mail server do not roll over to their secondary mail server. HTH, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
