Strange DNS behavior for MX records...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <39204d30.250249880 at corp.supernews.com>,
 <Mike_Harrington at bmc.com> wrote:
>We are having a problem exchanging e-mail with one particular company
>on the internet, while we can communicate with anyone else on the
>internet without any problems at all.
>
>While doing an nslookup on our DNS server, I can get all available
>information for the company's domain, except for the MX records.
>Likewise, they can get all of our information, except the MX records.
>As a result, we are unable to send or receive e-mail with this
>particular company.  Mail either times out, or occassionally gives a
>strange error about "sender domain must exist", but not consistently.
>If (within an nslookup) I set my server to anywhere else in the world,
>I am able to get all information (including MX records) about either
>domain.

Can you post their domain name and your named.conf file?

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