RE: [IMail Forum] Strange IMail Delivery problem

Wed, 29 May 2002 19:49:59 -0700

Title: Message
Assuming that you "replaced" the real address, have you tried to do an nslookup from the mail server?  
I just queried your server and got the following response:
 
BTW, your primary ns1 timedout...
 
> server ns1.thedigest.com
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find address for server ns1.thedigest.com: Timed out
> server ns2.thedigest.com
Default Server:  ns2.thedigest.com
Address:  208.25.165.174
 
> earthlink.net
Server:  ns2.thedigest.com
Address:  208.25.165.174
 
Name:    earthlink.net
Addresses:  207.217.120.208, 207.217.120.209, 207.217.120.220, 207.217.120.200
          207.217.121.201, 207.217.120.202, 207.217.121.203, 207.217.120.204, 20
7.217.121.205
          207.217.120.206, 207.217.120.207
 
> earthink.net
Server:  ns2.thedigest.com
Address:  208.25.165.174
 
Name:    earthink.net
Address:  208.254.3.130
 
> set q=mx
> earthink.net
Server:  ns2.thedigest.com
Address:  208.25.165.174
 
earthink.net    MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = misdirected.buydomains.com
earthink.net    nameserver = ns2.buydomains.com
earthink.net    nameserver = ns.buydomains.com
misdirected.buydomains.com      internet address = 192.168.1.1
ns.buydomains.com       internet address = 208.254.3.177
ns2.buydomains.com      internet address = 128.121.3.71

> earthlink.net
Server:  ns2.thedigest.com
Address:  208.25.165.174
 
Non-authoritative answer:
earthlink.net   MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx00.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx01.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx02.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx03.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx04.earthlink.net
 
mx00.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.28
mx01.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.29
mx02.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.79
mx03.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.78
mx04.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.249
>
 
You just seem to have a mistyped address...
 
Carlos M. Perez
-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos M. Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:56 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Strange IMail Delivery problem

Why don't you try earthlink.net not earthink.net...


>20020529 181258 127.0.0.1       SMTP (223) Trying earthink.net (0)
>20020529 181258 127.0.0.1       SMTP (223) [x] delivery to host earthink.net
>20020529 181343 127.0.0.1       SMTP (223) MX connect fail "192.168.1.1"

Carlos M. Perez



-----Original Message-----
From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange IMail Delivery problem



>For the last 6+ months, my Imail users have been unable to receive any
>e-mail from subscribers at Earthlink.

Um, do you mean that your users can't *send* to Earthlink users?

I ask because:

>It seems to show that one of our
>hosting customers at prodial.com attempted to send an e-mail to a user
>at earthlink.net, but that there was some sort of lookup failure.

This is outgoing E-mail, being sent to a Earthlink user.  Outgoing E-mail
problems are usually very different than incoming E-mail problems.

>20020529 181258 127.0.0.1       SMTP (223) Trying earthink.net (0)
>20020529 181258 127.0.0.1       SMTP (223) [x] delivery to host earthink.net
>20020529 181343 127.0.0.1       SMTP (223) MX connect fail "192.168.1.1"

And here is the problem.  192.168.1.1 is a private IP address.

Most likely, someone accidentally entered "192.168.1.1  earthlink.net" in
your HOSTS file.

The other possibility is that the DNS server used with IMail is broken
(perhaps hacked into), and is returning invalid entries for earthlink.

>I looked in the HOSTS file. There is no mention of earthlink.net
>anywhere,

Good -- that rules that out.

>I run my own DNS servers at NS1.THEDIGEST.COM and NS2.THEDIGEST.COM.
>There is no entry for earthlink.net in my DNS. The DNS entries for my
>own domains is o.k. When I query my own DNS servers for earthlink.net,
>I get the same results as from any other DNS server. My third DNS
>server listed on my boxes is 208.25.112.1, which belongs to my upstream
>provider. They have NO problems with earthink.net.

I'm guessing that you have different DNS settings for IMail than the
standard server settings (the three DNS servers listed above seem to
respond to earthlink.net without any problems).  If you go to the SMTP
settings, you'll see a box "Domain name server address" -- what is listed
there?  If it is not ns1.thedigest.com, ns2.thedigest.com, and/or
208.25.112.1, then you've probably found the problem.

                                                    -Scott
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