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roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts) writes:
>Host GALLIFREY.BU.EDU has not been accepting mail for weeks.  At present,
>I have over 100 mail messages bound for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU queued on my
>internet forwarder.  The only MX record for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU points to
>that host itself.  I cannot ping or otherwise contact GALLIFREY.BU.EDU.
>If GALLIFREY.BU.EDU is going to be down for extended periods of time, it
>would be good if an alternate, MX record were provided.  If that host has
>gone away altogether, the A and MX records for it should be removed from
>the DNS ASAP.

Check out the other DNS info on the host in question:


; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> GALLIFREY.BU.EDU any 
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 3, Addit: 4
;; QUESTIONS: 
;;	GALLIFREY.BU.EDU, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
GALLIFREY.BU.EDU.	359929	CNAME	CHEM.BU.EDU.

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
BU.EDU.	172728	NS	BU.EDU.
BU.EDU.	172728	NS	NNSC.NSF.NET.
BU.EDU.	172728	NS	BU-IT.BU.EDU.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
BU.EDU.	172728	A	128.197.27.7
NNSC.NSF.NET.	172728	A	128.89.1.178
BU-IT.BU.EDU.	172728	A	128.197.20.40
BU-IT.BU.EDU.	172728	A	128.197.2.40

;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 390 msec 
;; FROM: claudius to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 31 13:14:47 1992
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 183

I'd suggest contacting postmaster@bu.edu for further word on your problem.

PS: I can ping it from here:

:!ping -sv GALLIFREY.BU.EDU                   
PING CHEM.BU.EDU: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=0. time=419. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=1. time=300. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=3. time=120. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=4. time=140. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=5. time=130. ms
^C
----CHEM.BU.EDU PING Statistics----
6 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 120/221/419

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                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil