Matt do a NSLOOKUP on their DNS server for mail.cost-less.com NSLOOKUP > server their_ip > set type=mx > mail.cost-less.com
Then just change the server to query other DN servers Doing this will tellyou where the problem is. If their IPS still is reporting the old information thei it is definatly their problem and you will have the information to porrve it to them. Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Robertson > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail blamed in ISP switch. > > > Hi all, combined comments here to your responses. > > DNS is set up properly. The actual domain is mail.cost-less.com and > dnsreports.com (and the rdns test at dnsstuff.com) all show what they're > supposed to. Its been going on 2 weeks now that the change was made so > we're well past any propagation issues. > > They are not blocking port 25. I can force the mail thru to the proper > server by using a numeric IP instead of the client's virtual domain > name. > > They have supposedly removed the domain from their dns. Or at least > they say they have. The web server has rolled over just fine. And get > this: if you ping the mail server while on their dsl network (i.e. "ping > mail.cost-less.com") the proper, new IP comes up, just as it does off a > 'foreign' connection on another network. That one surprised me. > > Scott's surmise about the mail domain still being in their mail server > makes sense, but given the above I don't see how we're touching that > mail server in the first place. > > With this morning's on-site meeting I managed to get an email address to > their mail server admin, who deigned to accept mail headers from me. I > hope that means this guy is smart enough not to tell me to flush my > browser cache. > > -------------------------------------------- > Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com > -------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
