There doesn't appear to be any NS records listed for hinet.tw at the moment, so yes, everything for that domain will be broken for anyone who's DNS isn't holding cached records. This will be fixed when they decide to fix it. (Of course, all of you already know this, because you're network admins..).

Yes, Mail will queue for $predetermined_time (usually ~5 days) and then bounce with whatever problem the server has been having.

This issue should have been directed at postmaster@xtra.co.nz, who will have concluded the same thing.

"FYI, hinet.tw has busted their DNS, so expect your mail servers to be queueing/bouncing email for them, among other things." would have been somewhat relevant to the list, given that its a large network.

Jeremy

Jamie Riden wrote: 
On 11/07/06, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> wrote:
  
Jamie Riden wrote:
    
My DNS servers have neither MX nor A record for msa.hinet.tw.

$ telnet msa.hinet.tw 25
telnet: could not resolve msa.hinet.tw/25: Name or service not known

If that's the case though, I'd expect the mail to be bounced rather
than queued.

Hinet is indeed a Taiwanese ISP and famous mainly for not doing
anything noticable about spam/abuse complaints IIRC.

<grumble>Plus, this list isn't for XTRA tech-support.</>
      
msa.hinet.net resolves though...
    

Sorry - you're right; msa.hinet.net does seem to accept a SMTP session
from here.

  
Hinet's Taiwan's largest ISP. Seem to be more responsive than most
providers in that part of the world, but that's just my limited experience.
    

Could well be - I gave up complaining to them a few years ago, but
I'll start trying again.

cheers,
 Jamie

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