Xref: utzoo comp.unix.sysv386:3469 comp.mail.misc:4634 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!evax!utacfd!letni!mic!egsner!eric From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Host unknown Message-ID: <1990Dec28.162619.13117@egsner.cirr.com> Date: 28 Dec 90 16:26:19 GMT References: <1990Dec24.001328.759@nstar.rn.com> <1990Dec26.192115.23329@csrd.uiuc.edu> Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx. Lines: 36 In article pax@megasys.com (Garry M. Paxinos) writes: - - In article <1990Dec26.192115.23329@csrd.uiuc.edu> - patrick@whistle.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes: - Ahem... - - ----- Transcript of session follows ----- - 550 nstar.rn.com (TCP)... 550 Host unknown - 554 ... 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... I would suspect that the problem is at the sending end, and that the sendmail is not configured to use MX records. If the sending host is configured to use MX's, then it might be a problem that the target host of the MX is not yet ready, but that is just a guess. Followups have been redirected to comp.mail.misc. -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com schnoebe@convex.com C Code. C Code Run. Run, Code, RUN! PLEASE!!!!