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[Larry Snyder]

eric at egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) writes:

>In article <PAX.90Dec27091610 at megasys.megasys.> pax at megasys.com
>		 (Garry M. Paxinos) writes:
>- 
>- In article <1990Dec26.192115.23329 at csrd.uiuc.edu> 
>-			patrick at whistle.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes:
>-    Ahem...
>- 
>-       ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>-    550 nstar.rn.com (TCP)... 550 Host unknown
>-    554 <larry at nstar.rn.com>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no data [address])
>- 
>- I'm wondering, is this happening to alot of people?  It's been 
>- happening to both megasys.com and metrolink.com down here quite abit.

>        I haven't seen this happen to me, but then again, I'm not
>directly connected.  I too use an MX like Larry does.  My MX points to
>two sites, with both uunet and seismo holding the MX records.

>- BTW, both systems use uunet.uu.net as a nameserver.  Uunet says it's
>- elsewhere... is it?  Both domains have primary and secondary forwarders
>- so it seems strange that this is happening...

the problem in our case (for the domain rn.com) is that
our primary forwarder was specifing *.rn.com -> nstar -
which didn't forward everything like it should (he is using
sendmail).  if he put nstar.rn.com -> nstar everything works
just fine - so the problem is related to the *.rn.com in the
cf file.

like I mentioned in a previous article - everything was working
just dandy until about 10 days ago (with the *.rn.com)  

strange indeed..

-- 
       Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
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