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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Maxwell House Daemon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: can't get MX records for new US domain
Keywords: bind,mx,domain,mail
Message-ID: <14962@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 28 Jul 88 23:36:18 GMT
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evan@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Evan Bauman) writes:
) However, when I attempted to send something to chinet.chi.il.us,
) it got bounced back from sendmail with a 'host unknown' error message.

Chinet jumped the gun and starting using its domain name before its
registration had been confirmed by the .US authority.

) BTW, I ran sendmail with the -bt option and found that mail is sent
) to US domain sites the same way as the usual COM or EDU sites.

If you want to see the important differences, run the queue with
"/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v -d8.1".

) 	Evan Bauman,  Univ. of Notre Dame

Evan, someone at UIUC told me you'd left ND.  Maybe he just meant you
weren't running netnews any more.  Or maybe he was wrong.
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu