[Fwd: Re: Re:DNS Question]

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:59 PM -0400 5/14/01, Doug Stewart wrote:

>  I am having a mailer record problem with @bigfoot.com addresses. I have been
>  for some time now. Is anyone having similar experience? Suggested trouble
>  shooting / problem solving?

	The only problem I see with the DNS for bigfoot.com is that 
ns2.bigfoot.com is not one of the two nameservers that the .com gTLD 
nameservers delegate to:

$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net. bigfoot.com. ns

; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net. bigfoot.com. ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11999
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bigfoot.com.                   IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bigfoot.com.            172800  IN      NS      NS1.bigfoot.com.
bigfoot.com.            172800  IN      NS      NS.bigfoot.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.bigfoot.com.        172800  IN      A       208.156.39.8
NS.bigfoot.com.         172800  IN      A       206.132.3.8

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(a.gtld-servers.net.)
;; WHEN: Mon May 14 19:27:05 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 96

$dig @NS1.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. ns

; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> @NS1.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55166
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bigfoot.com.                   IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bigfoot.com.            86400   IN      NS      ns2.bigfoot.com.
bigfoot.com.            86400   IN      NS      ns.bigfoot.com.
bigfoot.com.            86400   IN      NS      ns1.bigfoot.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.bigfoot.com.        86400   IN      A       208.156.60.8
ns.bigfoot.com.         86400   IN      A       206.132.3.8
ns1.bigfoot.com.        86400   IN      A       208.156.39.8

;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 208.156.39.8#53(NS1.bigfoot.com.)
;; WHEN: Mon May 14 19:30:09 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 130

	I can get to their mail server just fine:

$ telnet mail.bigfoot.com. 25
Trying 208.156.39.203...
Connected to mail.bigfoot.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ltmail.bigfoot.com LiteMail v3.01(BFLITEMAIL4); Mon, 14 May 2001 
19:18:14 -0400
ehlo me
250-mx.bigfoot.com Hello [216.200.68.14], pleased to meet you
250 HELP
help
214-This is BrickMail version 0.0.1
214-Commands:
214-    HELO    MAIL    RCPT    DATA
214-    RSET    NOOP    QUIT    HELP

214-To report bugs in the implementation send email to
214-    postmaster at bigfoot.com
214-For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
214 End of HELP info

quit
221 Closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
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