Weird intermittent DNS/MX resolution

[Michael Kjorling]

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I have no problem at all resolving it:

> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;foobar.com.                    IN      NS
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> foobar.com.             172800  IN      NS      NS.POWERDOG.com.
> foobar.com.             172800  IN      NS      NS.foobar.com.


> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;foobar.com.                    IN      SOA
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> foobar.com.             259200  IN      SOA     ns.foobar.com. hostmaster\@foobar.com. 2001070101 10800 3600 3628800 259200


> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;foobar.com.                    IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> foobar.com.             259200  IN      A       140.186.139.224


> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;foobar.com.                    IN      MX
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> foobar.com.             259200  IN      MX      10 mail.foobar.com.

However, you may want to fix that SOA RNAME. Some tools may interpret
it as the e-mail address "hostmaster at foobar@com", which clearly is not
deliverable.


Michael Kjörling


On Nov 20 2001 22:18 -0800, Rick Crelia wrote:

> Should I be concerned that no A or SOA exists for foobar.com?
> Could that be related to the intermittent MX failures?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --rc

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