larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (12/30/90)
eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) writes: >In article <PAX.90Dec27091610@megasys.megasys.> pax@megasys.com > (Garry M. Paxinos) writes: >- >- In article <1990Dec26.192115.23329@csrd.uiuc.edu> >- patrick@whistle.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes: >- Ahem... >- >- ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >- 550 nstar.rn.com (TCP)... 550 Host unknown >- 554 <larry@nstar.rn.com>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no data [address]) >- >- I'm wondering, is this happening to alot of people? It's been >- happening to both megasys.com and metrolink.com down here quite abit. > I haven't seen this happen to me, but then again, I'm not >directly connected. I too use an MX like Larry does. My MX points to >two sites, with both uunet and seismo holding the MX records. >- BTW, both systems use uunet.uu.net as a nameserver. Uunet says it's >- elsewhere... is it? Both domains have primary and secondary forwarders >- so it seems strange that this is happening... the problem in our case (for the domain rn.com) is that our primary forwarder was specifing *.rn.com -> nstar - which didn't forward everything like it should (he is using sendmail). if he put nstar.rn.com -> nstar everything works just fine - so the problem is related to the *.rn.com in the cf file. like I mentioned in a previous article - everything was working just dandy until about 10 days ago (with the *.rn.com) strange indeed.. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA {larry@nstar.rn.com, uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu} backbone usenet newsfeeds available Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 high speed lines)