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- From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: GALLIFREY.BU.EDU not accepting mail.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.171948.13383@pica.army.mil>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:19:48 GMT
- References: <p3svp40@sgi.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@pica.army.mil (USENET Special Account <usenet>)
- Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
- Lines: 57
- Nntp-Posting-Host: claudius
-
- roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts) writes:
- >Host GALLIFREY.BU.EDU has not been accepting mail for weeks. At present,
- >I have over 100 mail messages bound for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU queued on my
- >internet forwarder. The only MX record for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU points to
- >that host itself. I cannot ping or otherwise contact GALLIFREY.BU.EDU.
- >If GALLIFREY.BU.EDU is going to be down for extended periods of time, it
- >would be good if an alternate, MX record were provided. If that host has
- >gone away altogether, the A and MX records for it should be removed from
- >the DNS ASAP.
-
- Check out the other DNS info on the host in question:
-
-
- ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> GALLIFREY.BU.EDU any
- ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
- ;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 3, Addit: 4
- ;; QUESTIONS:
- ;; GALLIFREY.BU.EDU, type = ANY, class = IN
-
- ;; ANSWERS:
- GALLIFREY.BU.EDU. 359929 CNAME CHEM.BU.EDU.
-
- ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
- BU.EDU. 172728 NS BU.EDU.
- BU.EDU. 172728 NS NNSC.NSF.NET.
- BU.EDU. 172728 NS BU-IT.BU.EDU.
-
- ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
- BU.EDU. 172728 A 128.197.27.7
- NNSC.NSF.NET. 172728 A 128.89.1.178
- BU-IT.BU.EDU. 172728 A 128.197.20.40
- BU-IT.BU.EDU. 172728 A 128.197.2.40
-
- ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 390 msec
- ;; FROM: claudius to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
- ;; WHEN: Mon Aug 31 13:14:47 1992
- ;; MSG SIZE sent: 34 rcvd: 183
-
- I'd suggest contacting postmaster@bu.edu for further word on your problem.
-
- PS: I can ping it from here:
-
- :!ping -sv GALLIFREY.BU.EDU
- PING CHEM.BU.EDU: 56 data bytes
- 64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=0. time=419. ms
- 64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=1. time=300. ms
- 64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=3. time=120. ms
- 64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=4. time=140. ms
- 64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=5. time=130. ms
- ^C
- ----CHEM.BU.EDU PING Statistics----
- 6 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 16% packet loss
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 120/221/419
-
- --
-
- tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
-