On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:14:55AM -0700, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
> Quoting Duncan Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:50:52AM -0700, Anthony White wrote:
> > > There is no record pointing to the domain itself. It points
> > > to 'mail.movielink.net.au'
>
> > >From my point of view the bouncing programs are broken. Having no address
> > record for a domain but having MX records as you do is 100% valid. I have
>
> Yes this is true, however his DNS setup is indeed broken. Trying to
> get an A record for movielink.net.au returns SERVFAIL, not merely
> NXDOMAIN (no such domain).
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> movielink.net.au a
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; movielink.net.au, type = A, class = IN
>
> Even our qmail server (with UCE patches) would reject his mail.
> It's arguable...
>
> Aaron
There we go. I only looked for valid MX'ng. I also get the error you report
albiet via nslookup and debug=1.
Anthony if you are still reading, this should be your solution. Fix you DNS
not to die when providing this address record.
/Duncan
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Duncan Watson
nCube
