you dig?

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Works for me...

$ dig hotmail.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> hotmail.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      hotmail.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hotmail.com.            2m11s IN A      64.4.45.7
hotmail.com.            2m11s IN A      64.4.52.7
hotmail.com.            2m11s IN A      64.4.53.7
hotmail.com.            2m11s IN A      64.4.54.7
hotmail.com.            2m11s IN A      64.4.43.7
hotmail.com.            2m11s IN A      64.4.44.7

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hotmail.com.            10h49m13s IN NS  NS1.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com.            10h49m13s IN NS  NS3.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com.            10h49m13s IN NS  NS2.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com.            1d4h42m17s IN NS  NS4.hotmail.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.hotmail.com.        59m18s IN A     216.200.206.140
NS3.hotmail.com.        22m43s IN A     209.185.130.68
NS2.hotmail.com.        1d15h1m5s IN A  216.200.206.139
NS4.hotmail.com.        1d12h45m26s IN A  64.4.29.24

;; Total query time: 27 msec
;; FROM: oak to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 23 10:03:30 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 261

  - John R. S. 


> From: oldskoolvancouver at hotmail.com (Shaft)
> Organization: http://groups.google.com/
> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
> Date: 22 Feb 2002 20:53:57 -0800
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: you dig?
> 
> 
> I was having problems sending emails (using sendmail) to hotmail.com
> addresses and I'm thinking it may be dns related.
> 
> when i run sendmail with the debug option, the program hangs at:
> 
> blah ..
> --parseaddr(oldskoolvancouver at hotmail.com)
> rewrite: ruleset   3   input: oldskoolvancouver @ hotmail . com
> rewrite: ruleset  96   input: oldskoolvancouver < @ hotmail . com >
> map_lookup(host, hotmail.com) => host_map_lookup(hotmail.com) =>
> <HANGS HERE>
> 
> so I did a dig and this is what I get:
> 
>> dig hotmail.com any
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> hotmail.com any
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> <HANGS HERE>
> 
> Dig and sendmail seem to be working for every other address.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> I'm not running any dns servers on my machine .. using my ISPs (I've
> checked to make sure they're correct)
> 
> Cheers!
> Shaft
> 
>