Author: Victor Churchill Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Email return-to-sender - who has dropped what where?
2009/11/3 Simon Huggins <huggie@???>: >> That line "for name=data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com type=A: Host not found"
>> looks to me almost like a blatant typo/clerical error in somebody's
>> setup.
>
> Yes. Looks like the classic missing . in a zonefile:
>
> The MX for h-ems.com is:
> [huggie@the ~]$ dig -t MX h-ems.com +short
> 10 data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com.
>
> Yet:
> [huggie@the ~]$ dig -t any data.h-ems.com.h-ems.com +short
> [huggie@the ~]$ dig -t any data.h-ems.com +short
> 213.232.95.114
>
> So they probably meant to set their MX to data.h-ems.com.
>
Thank you Simon, that seems to confirm the suspicions I had. Strange,
because the recipient seems to think the destination address is fine
("from their end")! Maybe it works from within their internal network
but not from outside.
