On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Phonenet < phonenet(a)phonenet.in-newzealand.com> wrote:

Question How is email getting to him at all - is there some sort of wizardry going on that resolves hotmail.co.nz to hotmail.com that is not apparent when checking DNS , tracerouting or trying to browse to hotmail.co.nz?

Not sure if an MX record counts as wizardry these days, but: dig +short hotmail.co.nz mx 5 mx1.hotmail.com. 5 mx2.hotmail.com. 5 mx3.hotmail.com. 5 mx4.hotmail.com. Druidry perhaps?

Umm, yes. It's called an "MX Record". scott(a)zaphod:~$ dig +short mx hotmail.co.nz 5 mx3.hotmail.com. 5 mx4.hotmail.com. 5 mx1.hotmail.com. 5 mx2.hotmail.com. Scott. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Phonenet < phonenet(a)phonenet.in-newzealand.com> wrote:

Ok first off let me advise I'm usually a lurker but this case has me beat and I also need to confess to being no great expert on running an email server...

Client A reports email missing from Client B - A is using an email address on my mail server office(a)srt.co.nz (not the actual address) . B claims he is sending his email from MT(a)hotmail.co.nz ... not ever having heard of a .nz suffix for Hotmail I tried to traceroute it - it doesn't resolve to anything "unable to resolve target system name hotmail.co.nz.

B insists that is his email address and that email gets to him ... after getting him to email me directly 1 checked the email headers and noted the received from bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com - in fact the only mention of hotmail.co.nz is where B has presumably set up his email client...

Question How is email getting to him at all - is there some sort of wizardry going on that resolves hotmail.co.nz to hotmail.com that is not apparent when checking DNS , tracerouting or trying to browse to hotmail.co.nz?

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