On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:00:05AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote:
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> On 17 Mar 00, at 9:46, Chris Green wrote:
> > Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly
> > addressed mail was sent to <someone>@enterprises.net, whereas it
> > should have been sent to <someone>@enterprise.net and I was definitely
> > getting the deferral message.
>
> Is this enough for a reply?
> [root@saturnin root]# dig enterprises.net ns
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> enterprises.net ns
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 5
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; enterprises.net, type = NS, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> enterprises.net. 2D IN NS DNS1.BOULEVARDS.COM.
> enterprises.net. 2D IN NS NS1.BARRNET.NET.
> enterprises.net. 2D IN NS DNSAUTH1.SYS.GTEI.NET.
> enterprises.net. 2D IN NS DNSAUTH2.SYS.GTEI.NET.
> enterprises.net. 2D IN NS DNSAUTH3.SYS.GTEI.NET.
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> The domain exists, according to root servers. Of course, it seems
> that this delegation is lame: A connection to the first two servers
> times out, the three gtei.net servers deny any knowledge about
> enterprises.net.
>
> What your nslookup says may be irrelevant, as it doesn't point out
> the difference between temporary and permanent failure.
>
>
> Is that enough?
>
OK, it's thus just unfortunate that the user's mis-typing produced a
'possible' mail domain. However I'm still not quite clear how qmail
manages to see it as a domain that 'might be' whereas a
straightforward nslookup simply says it doesn't exist. Is this just
that nslookup isn't telling us everything?
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