[10252] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Aol.com missing ??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Thu Jun 26 15:38:14 1997
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: hannigan@firefly.net (Martin J. Hannigan)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:31:44 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706261715.RAA00505@big-man.firefly.net> from "Martin J. Hannigan" at Jun 26, 97 01:15:30 pm
Martin J. Hannigan writes...
> AOL and Netscape aren't pushing A records and
> erols.net is cnamed to ns0.erols.net
>
> It's not a problem per se.
I guess this is leaking off topic a bit, but, FWIW, AOL.COM does have MX
records pointing to CNAME records. It causes my named to whine through
syslog a lot.
Basically, I'm not expecting AOL to have everything up to snuff in the
DNS department. But I've seen worse with some big providers.
| phil@charon:/home/phil 4> nslookup -qt=mx aol.com 152.163.199.42
| Server: dns-01.aol.com
| Address: 152.163.199.42
|
| aol.com preference = 25, mail exchanger = b.mr.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 25, mail exchanger = c.mr.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 15, mail exchanger = a.mx.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 15, mail exchanger = b.mx.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 15, mail exchanger = c.mx.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 15, mail exchanger = d.mx.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 15, mail exchanger = e.mx.aol.com
| aol.com preference = 25, mail exchanger = a.mr.aol.com
| aol.com nameserver = dns-02.aol.com
| aol.com nameserver = dns-aol.ans.net
| aol.com nameserver = dns-01.aol.com
| dns-02.aol.com internet address = 152.163.199.56
| dns-aol.ans.net internet address = 198.83.210.28
| dns-01.aol.com internet address = 152.163.199.42
| phil@charon:/home/phil 5> nslookup -qt=any b.mr.aol.com 152.163.199.42
| Server: dns-01.aol.com
| Address: 152.163.199.42
|
| b.mr.aol.com canonical name = mrin04.mx.aol.com
| mr.aol.com nameserver = dns-01.aol.com
| mr.aol.com nameserver = dns-02.aol.com
| mr.aol.com nameserver = dns-aol.ans.net
| dns-01.aol.com internet address = 152.163.199.42
| dns-02.aol.com internet address = 152.163.199.56
| dns-aol.ans.net internet address = 198.83.210.28
| phil@charon:/home/phil 6>
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