Problem with E-mail (Name server timeout)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7Z2j4.20477$fy1.1546 at tundra.ops.attcanada.net>,
Ted Ritchie <tedr at flightcraft.ca> wrote:
>We are having a problem sending e-mail to a domain (pacgtc.com). All other
>e-mail delivery is working fine, but every time we try to send to this
>domain we get a Name server timeout. I have deduced that if we send a
>message to user at pacgtc.com. <-- note the trailing period the message will go
>through. I am not very familar with DNS, but I have tried nslookup after
>looking through this newsgroup. If I do an nslookup pacgtc.com I get no
>responce, but if I do an nslookup after setting the type to MX I do get a
>responce. This doesn't seem correct to me but I don't know what it all
>means.

There seems to be a problem with the configuration of ns2.astsoft.com.
It's supposed to be a slave server for pacgtc.com, but it doesn't appear to
be.  If your local server happens to query it, the lookup may fail.

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