Laurence Moughan: > I do ( detailed in the same email ) - and i get timeouts when there is a > typo in the record - all correct records come back fine.
You are doing one MX lookup that times out. Then, two A lookups for the email domain name, and that is wrong. Instead, you need to do one MX lookup for the email domain, and A lookups for the MX hostnames. Wietse