[BNM] Email DNS woe / Google hosted service

[andrew holway]

Been trying to use dig a lot more for this. Been finding a lot of
stuff out by asking specific nameservers specific questions. It was
invaluable in getting my rDNS setup. Just wish 1and1 would play ball
and tell nominet the IP of my nameserver :-(

Do you do your own DNS?

On 03/07/07, Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks <rjm at wessexnetworks.com> wrote:
> Yeah - squish.net is fantastic for gaining an understanding of how DNS
> works!  I suggest everyone on this list test-drive it!
>
> Dnsstuff has its uses, but don't pay too much attention to the DNS Report -
> it's a bit like the automated "Website Testing" tools you get that say "you
> have more than 10 images on your page - this is bad".  It's a bit cack as
> well how they try and charge you to use it these days - but the sort of
> people that would use it are wise enough to know that deleting the domain
> cookies resets the number of times you have used it... amateurs - lol.
>
> I find the Spam Database Lookups particularly useful on dnsstuff.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> Wessex Networks
> Linchmere Place
> Ifield
> Crawley
> West Sussex
> RH11 0EX
> www.wessexnetworks.com rjm at wessexnetworks.com
> T: 01293 542080 F: 01293 553849
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of andrew holway
> Sent: 03 July 2007 11:23
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Email DNS woe / Google hosted service
>
> thanks  for the squish.net service, thats really handy. have you
> looked at dnsstuff.co.uk?
>
> andy
> monet.co.uk
>
> On 03/07/07, Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks <rjm at wessexnetworks.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Wessex Networks
> > Linchmere Place
> > Ifield
> > Crawley
> > West Sussex
> > RH11 0EX
> > www.wessexnetworks.com rjm at wessexnetworks.com
> > T: 01293 542080 F: 01293 553849
> >
> > -----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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