[thelist] Qwest DNS Purgatory

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Sat Mar 17 21:05:39 CST 2001


At 06:05 PM 3/17/2001, you wrote:
>On 17 Mar 2001, at 18:31, dannyB wrote:
>
> > > Your user can enter 209.25.225.253 instead of mail.susstones.com in his
> > > email program to access his POP3 box.
>
> > Wow!  How did you find this address?  I poked around but came up empty
> > handed.  Nothing I had would find an IP address for mail.susstones.com
>
>Ping will do it. So will traceroute.

Actually, if you are looking for your MX record, you really want to use "dig"

# dig susstones.com mx

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> susstones.com mx
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      susstones.com, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
susstones.com.          1D IN MX        100 mail.susstones.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
susstones.com.          1D IN NS        ns1.hostcentric.net.
susstones.com.          1D IN NS        ns2.hostcentric.net.
susstones.com.          1D IN NS        ns3.hostcentric.net.
susstones.com.          1D IN NS        ns4.hostcentric.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.susstones.com.     1D IN A         209.25.225.253
ns1.hostcentric.net.    1D IN A         216.157.47.47
ns2.hostcentric.net.    1D IN A         216.157.55.51
ns3.hostcentric.net.    1D IN A         216.157.79.247

;; Total query time: 5109 msec
;; FROM: ramager.baratta.com to SERVER: default -- 209.142.3.31
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 17 18:04:33 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 203




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