[101576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Sat Jan 12 22:25:50 2008
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <1200193320.6424.28.camel@countzero.gizmopartners.com.gizmopartners.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:23:46 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
>
> We're bouncing email to houston.rr.com due to the MX being set to
> localhost.
>
> clb@countzero:~$ host -t mx houston.rr.com
> houston.rr.com mail is handled by 10 localhost.
>
> Setting the MX to 127.0.0.1 seems like an odd way to handle the
> switch.
>
> <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/silverman/4842611.html>
houston.rr.com, amongst other domains, went away as part of the
adelphia /
comcast / roadrunner customer swap.
http://blog.wordtothewise.com/index.php/2008/01/11/changes-at-roadrunner/
I tend to agree about the MX-localhost thing (MX 0 . would be better),
but
the domain is dead, jim, as far as email is concerned.
Cheers,
Steve
