Hi-- On Oct 2, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Balanagaraju Munukutla <9ba...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > Any one could help on the error below. > > [andrew@oc8163211842 ~] $ dig @xxxx.com abcd.com.sg mx > > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 <<>> @xxxxx.com abcd.com.sg mx > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Yes, it means the nameserver at xxxx.com could not be reached. FYI, that version of dig (and presumably BIND) was deprecated back in 2009: https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/bind-software-status/ Regards, -- -Chuck PS: I get an NXDOMAIN from Google's nameserver: % dig abcd.com.sg mx ; <<>> DiG 9.8.5-P1 <<>> abcd.com.sg mx ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 62834 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;abcd.com.sg. IN MX ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: com.sg. 900 IN SOA ds.nic.net.sg. postmaster.nic.net.sg. 2008426338 21600 1800 2419200 900 ;; Query time: 62 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 02 21:35:50 PDT 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 87 _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
