Ok, are the "Not-work Solutions" (sic) whois and/or root servers fubar'd again? This came up as a result of a couple of my mail servers denying a relay that passed through our upstream's relays without issue... (a funny sidebar to it, of course, is that the messages were spam though apparently should not have failed sendmail's domain check) (This from activities happening earlier today (10/04/1999) and yesterday) Regards, Russell -- begin % whois antigua.com [...] COL.COM CORPORATION (ANTIGUA6-DOM) P.O. BOX F-40132 Suite C, Regent Centre East Freeport, Grand Bahama Bahamas Domain Name: ANTIGUA.NET Administrative Contact: Black, John (JB8429) black@AXIONET.COM 604-737-1722 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: DNS Administration (DA256-ORG) support@WEBDIRECT.COM +1 (604) 222.4646 Billing Contact: Black, John (JB8429) black@AXIONET.COM 604-737-1722 Record last updated on 14-Sep-99. Record created on 31-Dec-97. Database last updated on 4-Oct-99 09:09:01 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.WEBDIRECT.NET 209.17.169.2 NS2.WEBDIRECT.NET 209.17.169.8 % /usr/sbin/nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1
set type=SOA antigua.com. Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1
antigua.com origin = cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net mail addr = hostmaster.mail.att.net serial = 2 refresh = 83000 (23h3m20s) retry = 10000 (2h46m40s) expire = 600000 (6d22h40m) minimum ttl = 83000 (23h3m20s) antigua.com nameserver = cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net antigua.com nameserver = dbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 199.191.128.105 dbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 199.191.128.106
server a.root-servers.net Default Server: a.root-servers.net Address: 198.41.0.4
set type=NS antigua.com. Server: a.root-servers.net Address: 198.41.0.4
Non-authoritative answer: antigua.com nameserver = CBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET antigua.com nameserver = DBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET Authoritative answers can be found from: CBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET internet address = 199.191.128.105 DBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET internet address = 199.191.128.106
-- end -- Russell M. Van Tassell russell@cscorp.com