MX record lookup problem.

[Grahame Cooper]

Mark Andrews wrote:
>>In article <d0nt8h$30gf$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>> Grahame Cooper <Grahame at JandG-Cooper.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a domain name jandg-cooper.com registered with Enom.
>>>
>>>jandg-cooper.com does not refer to any host, so there is no A or CNAME 
>>>record for that, but there is an MX record for jandg-cooper.com, which 
>>>points to cooper-linux.jandg-cooper.com
>>>
>>>The problem is that if an MX query for jandg-cooper is preceded by an A 
>>>record query, then the MX query fails:
>>>
>>>  $ host -t MX jandg-cooper.com
>>>  jandg-cooper.com mail is handled by 10 cooper-linux.jandg-cooper.com.
>>>
>>>  $ host jandg-cooper.com
>>>  Host jandg-cooper.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> 
> 	The auth servers are broken.

Thanks for that. I'll get on to Enom now.

Best wishes.