on Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:54:42AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 09:31 AM 13/09/2005, Steven Champeon wrote: > > >Does anyone know what their mail infrastructure looks like? From what I > >can see, they don't even have an MX record for fema.gov... > > No MX record, and the A record for fema.gov does not accept smtp traffic. > > # telnet fema.gov smtp > Trying 205.128.1.44... > telnet: connect to address 205.128.1.44: Operation timed out > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > # > Then again, it might be that they use different email addresses ? @dhs.gov ?
Their "contact us" page on fema.gov lists several @fema.gov addresses, so I doubt it. > fema.gov nameserver = ns.fema.gov > fema.gov nameserver = ns2.fema.gov > ns.fema.gov internet address = 166.112.200.142 > ns2.fema.gov internet address = 162.83.67.144 > > Looks Solaris'ish > > # telnet ns2.fema.gov smtp > Trying 162.83.67.144... > Connected to ns2.fema.gov. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 ns2.fema.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 > 09:49:36 -0400 (EDT) Well, how is any automated system supposed to find it? Sheesh. Apparently, that host accepts mail to postmaster; we'll see if it is actually delivered/read/responded to. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com antispam news, solutions for sendmail, exim, postfix: http://enemieslist.com/