[54878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wasilko)
Sun Jan 19 17:35:30 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:34:55 -0500
From: Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3e4623a3.22088661@pita.alt.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:26:16PM +0000, Tim Thorne wrote:
>
> "Dave Howe" <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >there then followed a short conversation that amounted to that - given that
> >$mydomain was working fine, they would *not* look at the problem for
> >$contractorsdomain unless $contractor contacted them about it. I found
> >postmaster@contractorsdomain worked fine, so managed to get *that* guy to
> >get uunet to fix the problem (and it was literally a thirty second fix).
>
> You can hardly expect an ISP to change an MX record on the opinion
> (right or wrong) of a third party. It could be someone trying a little
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original poster wasn't trying to
get UUnet to change an MX record.
Rather, the uunet-provided MX host for the domain was not set up
to 'relay' mail for that domain, and the original poster was
trying to get UUnet to fix their MTA config.
-j
