DNS issues w/ comcast.net and attbi.com (follow-up)

Tue Jan 4 17:24:33 UTC 2005

FYI:

A net-wise individual pointed me to this URL which states that
31-Dec-2004 was a cutoff date for attbi.com.

http://faq.comcast.net/faq/answer.jsp?name=17799&cat=Email&subcategory=1

-Jim P.

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:36 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Over the last few days I have seen numerous maillog errors wrt resolving
> MX records for comcast.net and attbi.com.  Am I alone in this?
> 
> Yesterday:
> DSN: Host unknown (Name server: comcast.net.: no data known)
> 
> Today:
> DSN: Host unknown (Name server: attbi.com.: no data known)
> 
> Currently I can manually dig an mx record for comcast.net, but attbi.com
> still seems to be blank.
> 
> -------------------------------
> jimpop at bugs~$ dig mx attbi.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx attbi.com
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36144
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;attbi.com.                     IN      MX
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> attbi.com.              2282    IN      SOA     ns.attbi.com.
> hostmaster.ns.attbi.com. 2005010401 10800 3600 604800 604800
> 
> ;; Query time: 1 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jan  4 11:28:18 2005
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 77
> 
> ---------------------------------
> jimpop at bugs~$ dig mx comcast.net
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx comcast.net
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38261
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;comcast.net.                   IN      MX
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> comcast.net.            575     IN      MX      5 gateway-s.comcast.net.
> comcast.net.            575     IN      MX      5 gateway-r.comcast.net.
> 
> ;; Query time: 1 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jan  4 11:28:43 2005
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 81
> ---------------------------------
> 
> tia,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
> 