I brought this to the attention of the applicable people, apparently you caught us at a bad time - we're in a transitional stage. Run a dig now, it should all resolve to TClear I'm told Hope I dont stuff this up.. my very first mailman post ever. Rawiri Blundell ComputerLand Technical Support Analyst http://wellington.nzwireless.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Tony Wicks Tue Jun 15 15:01:02 NZST 2004 Here is an example for a company that **should** know better - [root(a)s... http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog root]# dig computerland.co.nz mx ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> computerland.co.nz mx ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15150 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;computerland.co.nz. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: computerland.co.nz. 86400 IN MX 5 smtp.computerland.co.nz. computerland.co.nz. 86400 IN MX 10 mta.xtra.co.nz. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: computerland.co.nz. 86400 IN NS alien.xtra.co.nz. computerland.co.nz. 86400 IN NS terminator.xtra.co.nz. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: smtp.computerland.co.nz. 86400 IN A 203.167.229.7 ;; Query time: 297 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Tue Jun 15 15:00:23 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143 [root(a)s... http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog root]# dig -x 203.167.229.7 ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -x 203.167.229.7 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 61325 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;7.229.167.203.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 229.167.203.in-addr.arpa. 1800 IN SOA dns1.clear.net.nz. hostmaster.clear.net.nz. 2004051709 10800 3600 604800 1800 ;; Query time: 30 msec ;; SERVER: 203.98.6.51#53(203.98.6.51) ;; WHEN: Tue Jun 15 15:00:38 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108 [root(a)s... http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog root]#