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Current Results for altavista.com lookup

blacklist_zone 	domain 		status	Submitted
Added 			Rejected 	Removed 
Postmaster		altavista.com 	Listed 	Apr 1, 2004 21:24 EST 	Apr
2, 2004 1:51 EST 	Never 	Never 
dsn  			altavista.com 	Listed 	Feb 29, 2004 19:26 EST 	Mar
1, 2004 4:19 EST 	Never 	Never 
abuse  		altavista.com 	Listed 	Jan 21, 2002 23:54 EST 	Jan 23, 2002
21:28 EST 	Never 	Never 
bogusmx  		altavista.com 	Listed 	Mar 25, 2004 17:47 EST 	Mar
25, 2004 17:47 EST 	Never 	Never 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org 
> [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Barry Finkel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:36 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Strange MX Record for altavista.com
> 
> There is a mail system here that has mail queued for altavista.com.
> dig reports:
> 
> atalanta% dig altavista.com mx
> 
>      ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> altavista.com mx 
>      ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>      ;; got answer:
>      ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
>      ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, 
> ADDITIONAL: 0
>      ;; QUERY SECTION:
>      ;;      altavista.com, type = MX, class = IN
>      
>      ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>      altavista.com.          10M IN MX       0 .
>      
>      ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>      altavista.com.          10M IN NS       ns4.yahoo.com.
>      altavista.com.          10M IN NS       ns5.yahoo.com.
>      altavista.com.          10M IN NS       ns1.yahoo.com.
>      altavista.com.          10M IN NS       ns2.yahoo.com.
>      altavista.com.          10M IN NS       ns3.yahoo.com.
>      
>      ;; Total query time: 65 msec
>      ;; FROM: atalanta.ctd.anl.gov to SERVER: default -- 146.137.64.5
>      ;; WHEN: Wed Sep  1 16:27:21 2004
>      ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 142
>      
>      atalanta% 
> 
> That is a strange MX record.  When that mail system (MX Exchange)
> tries to send the mail, it opens an SMTP port 25 connection to one of
> my DNS servers.  Is this what is supposed to happen?  Thanks.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Barry S. Finkel
> Computing and Instrumentation Solutions Division
> Argonne National Laboratory          Phone:    +1 (630) 252-7277
> 9700 South Cass Avenue               Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
> Building 222, Room D209              Internet: BSFinkel at anl.gov
> Argonne, IL   60439-4828             IBMMAIL:  I1004994
> 
> 
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