problems with a certain domain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a9mnhf$m6q at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Chapman, Matt <chapmam2 at ocps.k12.fl.us> wrote:
>I am not responsible for the domain but I am having to deal with the
>mistakes it has.  I have forwarded some dlint stuff to the hostmaster
>but nothing yet.  I just thought it was weird that one name server was
>able to send mail to it and another was not and they each had different
>output from dig.

Lame servers often cause problems.  In this case, the registration of the
domain lists two nameservers, but only one of them is configured to host
the domain.  Since there's a 50-50 chance of querying the other nameserver,
intermittent problems are to be expected.

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