Folks:
I wonder if anyone can help.
Last night I upgraded our name server (ns.cce.ac.nz) to the latest BIND. SInce then we've had intermittant problems receiving email. Now I've reverted to the previous version: still got problems.
The setup is: name server ns.cce.ac.nz 202.36.178.69 mail server mailbox.cce.ac.nz 202.36.178.67 we connect through xtra, but have our own domain and mail servers. traceroute is stopped at our firewall.
Every name server that I check has the correct records (well, I think they are correct) except that for a few hours dns1.clear.net.nz had the wrong MX record.
Taking xtra as an example: only one out of many test messages has reached us.
One message from paradise.net.nz got here - in three hours. Others have not.
I'd have thought there might be a routing problem - but I can telent to the boxes from outside this site.
Folk from clear, telecom and domainz have all looked at the problem, and been a great help, but we seem to be no nearer a solution. One suggested trying nznog
Can anyone suggest where I might start looking now? It's been 24 hours and I'm puzzled.
I suspect you have an internal DNS lookup problem. I manually connected to your SMTP server from here in Mexico OK, but when I gave it my From: address, everything ground to a halt. Check that your mail server can perform DNS lookup's OK. Maybe your new config on your local name server is refusing to answer queries from your mail server? The mail that got through OK may have been from domains that were still in the local NS cache, or mentioned in your hosts file. IMHO, YMMV, etc. Good luck. -- Andrew P. Gardner barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP? We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare? Get active: http://www.domain-owners.org http://www.tldlobby.com --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog