Big Wave Dave wrote:

I have seen a coupld different domains using their services be similarly affected. Sending them an email would result in a bounce marked "domain not found". It has been periodically occurring since

The bounce/"domain not found" is exactly due to this problem with returning NXDOMAIN in the wrong place. I used plain SMTP in telnet to send them email ;)

November. By the time you track someone down that can fix it... it has magically corrected itself.

Well.. For me, it's just "Not My Problem (tm)". And no, the problem is still here ;) /mjt