GALLIFREY.BU.EDU not accepting mail.

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2 total messages Started by roberts Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:39

#982

Author: roberts
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:39

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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.

	- Robert Stephens
	  Silicon Graphics Inc.

Re: GALLIFREY.BU.EDU not accepting mail.

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Author: Tom Coradeschi <tcora>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:19

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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

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

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