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Re: Mail delivery problems

2007-03-29 05:58:09
Markku Savela wrote:
I recently got notice from IETF mailing lists that my mail has been
bouncing. The notice didn't have any examples of the bounces

Those bounces are delivery problems, see below why.

so I couldn't get any clue what is wrong. However, now I got a bounce
notice from bugtrag.. and it had this note
[..]

Apparently "networksolutions" for some reason occasionally resolves
"burp.tkv.asdf.org" into "resalehost.networksolutions.com".

Ever though about the place where bugtraq is hosted?
Also note that the IETF has nothing to do with that.


Isn't this behaviour totally antisocial from networksolutions and how
can it be stopped?

Antisocial is accusing organizations. Do a dig and find out:

org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD3.ULTRADNS.org.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD4.ULTRADNS.org.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
;; Received 349 bytes from 192.112.36.4#53(g.root-servers.net) in 126 ms

asdf.org.               86400   IN      NS      gw1.solid.fi.
asdf.org.               86400   IN      NS      gw.solid.fi.
;; Received 78 bytes from 199.7.66.1#53(TLD3.ULTRADNS.org) in 102 ms

tkv.asdf.org.           1800    IN      NS      ns.tkv.asdf.org.
;; Received 68 bytes from 193.65.201.11#53(gw1.solid.fi) in 50 ms

Now ask gw1.solid.fi where the NS is, eek a NS -> CNAME, that violates
some RFC's:

$ dig @gw1.solid.fi ns.tkv.asdf.org.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.tkv.asdf.org.        86400   IN      CNAME   tkvnic.tkv.asdf.org.
tkvnic.tkv.asdf.org.    48291   IN      A       212.16.100.33

And that host is not alive. So the MX can't be resolved, nor the A
record of "tkv.asdf.org" and as such mail will bounce.

Conclusion: Fix your mail setup.

Instead of accusing other people of things they don't do.

Greets,
 Jeroen


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