Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Tue Sep 13 13:54:42 UTC 2005


At 09:31 AM 13/09/2005, Steven Champeon wrote:

>Does anyone know what their mail infrastructure looks like? From what I
>can see, they don't even have an MX record for fema.gov...

No MX record, and the A record for fema.gov does not accept smtp traffic.

# telnet fema.gov smtp
Trying 205.128.1.44...
telnet: connect to address 205.128.1.44: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
#
Then again, it might be that they use different email addresses ? @dhs.gov ?

 > set type=soa
 > fema.gov
Server:  ns.fema.gov
Address:  166.112.200.142

fema.gov
         origin = ns.fema.gov
         mail addr = root.ns2.fema.gov
         serial = 2005090901
         refresh = 10800 (3H)
         retry   = 3600 (1H)
         expire  = 604800 (1W)
         minimum ttl = 1800 (30M)
fema.gov        nameserver = ns.fema.gov
fema.gov        nameserver = ns2.fema.gov
ns.fema.gov     internet address = 166.112.200.142
ns2.fema.gov    internet address = 162.83.67.144

Looks Solaris'ish

# telnet ns2.fema.gov smtp
Trying 162.83.67.144...
Connected to ns2.fema.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ns2.fema.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 
09:49:36 -0400 (EDT)

         ---Mike 




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