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Re: Mail To Russia Getting Routed Incorrectly.

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From: nauen
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 03:22
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In <v4xmt!_.westes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:

> For the last few days, mail to St. Petersburg, Russia has been routed
> incorrectly to the site nac.no instead of through fuug.fi.  nac.no always
> bounces back the mail with the message that it does not recognize the spb.su
> domain.  Can someone more expert in these things look at the header and
> determine whether this is an Internet-wide problem with the domain name
> servers, or is the problem instead local to our SMTP setup at Netcom?  I
> changed the user's name and site info in this header, but I have had this
> problem in the last few days for every site I contact in St. Petersburg.  Any
> suggestions are appreciated. 

Well, I'm not sure that you can say routing via nac.no is "incorrect",
inasmuch as nac.no is one of three mail exchangers known to name servers.

However, a similar problem was recently posted on the Info-Nets list 
concerning nac.no being unable to identify a host in the .perm.su domain.

As of today, the bouncing had stopped and mail was going through; apparently
a problem at nac.no had been fixed or some other MX host was being used.

If this happened to me, I think I'd write to postmaster@nac.no to ask what's
going on, and, if not happy with the answer, follow-up with a recommendation
to hostmaster@nic.eu.net to consider dropping nac.no as a mail exchanger.

But then it didn't happen to me, so all I will do is kibitz ;-})

Ric <nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil>  <nauen%wrmain.decnet@detrick-emh1.army.mil>
           ^^^^^Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
        U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
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