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Re: Host unknown

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From: Larry Snyder
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 1990 15:07
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eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) writes:

>In article <PAX.90Dec27091610@megasys.megasys.> pax@megasys.com
>		 (Garry M. Paxinos) writes:
>- 
>- In article <1990Dec26.192115.23329@csrd.uiuc.edu> 
>-			patrick@whistle.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes:
>-    Ahem...
>- 
>-       ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>-    550 nstar.rn.com (TCP)... 550 Host unknown
>-    554 <larry@nstar.rn.com>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no data [address])
>- 
>- I'm wondering, is this happening to alot of people?  It's been 
>- happening to both megasys.com and metrolink.com down here quite abit.

>        I haven't seen this happen to me, but then again, I'm not
>directly connected.  I too use an MX like Larry does.  My MX points to
>two sites, with both uunet and seismo holding the MX records.

>- BTW, both systems use uunet.uu.net as a nameserver.  Uunet says it's
>- elsewhere... is it?  Both domains have primary and secondary forwarders
>- so it seems strange that this is happening...

the problem in our case (for the domain rn.com) is that
our primary forwarder was specifing *.rn.com -> nstar -
which didn't forward everything like it should (he is using
sendmail).  if he put nstar.rn.com -> nstar everything works
just fine - so the problem is related to the *.rn.com in the
cf file.

like I mentioned in a previous article - everything was working
just dandy until about 10 days ago (with the *.rn.com)  

strange indeed..

-- 
       Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
  {larry@nstar.rn.com, uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu}
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Message-ID: <1990Dec30.150725.10579@nstar.rn.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!nstar!larry
References: <1990Dec24.001328.759@nstar.rn.com> <1990Dec26.192115.23329@csrd.uiuc.edu> <PAX.90Dec27091610@megasys.megasys.> <1990Dec28.162619.13117@egsner.cirr.com>

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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,fido.unix
Subject: Re: Host unknown
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.150725.10579@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 30 Dec 90 15:07:25 GMT
References: <1990Dec24.001328.759@nstar.rn.com> <1990Dec26.192115.23329@csrd.uiuc.edu> <PAX.90Dec27091610@megasys.megasys.> <1990Dec28.162619.13117@egsner.cirr.com>
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