On 02/13/2013 06:16 PM, Jon Morby wrote:

> So far I've been told
> 
> its my DNS (but they can resolve the A record, just not the MXs) 
> there was a suggestion that IPv6 might be to blame and they either
> can't talk IPv6 to our NSs or to our MXs - so we've dropped v6 from
> some of the DNS entries .. but still they ignore the MXs and go
> straight to the A

> Oddly though emails to fidonet.com <http://fidonet.com> work … just
> not fido.net <http://fido.net>
> 
> Now fidonet.com <http://fidonet.com> has no v6 in it's DNA currently
> .. which is why we were looking at IPv6 issues (again)

Could it be an issue with DNS response size ? Responses with MX and/or
AAAA records in them are going to be larger than just A records. This
may or may not be related to use of EDNS and/or queries over TCP vs UDP.

However, it's not clear that such packets would be big enough to run up
against regular network-path MTU issues, which makes me wonder if you
might be the collateral victim of some half-arsed attempts to filter
back-scatter of DNS reflection attacks.

Keith


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