[BNM] DNS help

[Joe Aliferis]

I think it is sending - I experience a delay before recipient receives it

Not got problems contacting/logging into smtp mailserver

Joe


andrew holway wrote:
> Did you say there was problems for you sending emails?? You cant
> access the malserver?
> 
> Ta
> 
> Andy
> 
> On 16/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>> yes
>>
>>
>>  From - Tue Oct 16 17:31:57 2007
>> X-Account-Key: account2
>> X-UIDL: UID152868-1158671419
>> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
>> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
>> X-Mozilla-Keys:
>>
>> Return-Path: <andrew at moonet.co.uk>
>> Delivered-To: joe at newforms.co.uk
>> Received: (qmail 24820 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2007 16:22:18 -0000
>> Received: from unknown (HELO mail.moognu.co.uk) (89.106.176.228)
>>    by pod-202.dolphin-server.co.uk with SMTP; 16 Oct 2007 16:22:18 -0000
>> This is a test email sent at 17:22. ta andy
>>
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> andrew holway wrote:
>>> Did you receive my test email? I sent that by hand using telnet.
>>>
>>> If that works I would suggest that everything is normal.
>>>
>>> Please send me back the full headers.
>>>
>>> Ta
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On 16/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> thanks for that info
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps 123reg use a short timeout so that other DNS servers caches
>>>> require frequent updates...
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark Ng wrote:
>>>>> On 16/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> We understood that, although we used 123reg to manage DNS, we were not
>>>>>> dependant on the performance of their DNS servers, because of the nature
>>>>>>   of the way DNS propogates around the internet
>>>>> Whilst DNS propogates to local DNS servers, local DNS servers act as
>>>>> caches, not as authoritative sources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whilst the nature of DNS means that not every request for your DNS
>>>>> records requires a trip to your DNS servers, the first request for any
>>>>> particular DNS record from a single location (a single location being
>>>>> one set of people using the same local DNS server) and each time the
>>>>> cache become invalid due to timeouts does require your DNS server to
>>>>> be working and not busy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Incidentally, I use 123reg, and their mail server stopped working
>>>>> properly a couple of days ago.  I've also seen a sharp drop in the
>>>>> number of users accessing my personal website.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
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