[BNM] Email DNS woe / Google hosted service

[Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks]

It's not that the site is down - your browser doesn't know where to find
it... i.e. a DNS issue, which is what was reported by Google.

It is as I suspected - the domain is suspended.  Whois shows the
namseservers, but whois is just an information database, not part of the DNS
system.  A dig, however shows that the .uk nameservers (Nominet) do not
correctly refer DNS clients to the dreamhost namsevers as it is suspended.

If you stick the domain in here, it gives you a DNS trace, halting at nic.uk
(Nominet):

http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/

HTH

Richard.

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-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of delarge
Sent: 03 July 2007 10:50
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Email DNS woe / Google hosted service

ah! good point - the website itself is down:

http://vectorpixel.co.uk/

:S



On 7/3/07, andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Whats the domain and whats the email address? sending too/from?
>
> etc
>
>
> On 03/07/07, delarge <delargerock at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Heeeeey YO!
> >
> > I set my friend up with the Google for your domain scenario, I have used
> if
> > for others and myself and it's rock solid.
> > Well, I thought it was until I emailed him today and got a bounce-back -
> > part of the details say this:
> >
> > Technical details of permanent failure:
> > PERM_FAILURE: DNS Error: Domain name not found
> >
> >
> > Is this a problem with Google or with the domain name providers?
> > (I suspect the latter)
> > I phoned him and he said some people can email fine and some can't... wa
> a
> > gwan?
> >
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