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Date:	Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:56:26 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: scoug.com & MX

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In <40FAAD7C.15F0@peterskye.com>, on 07/18/04
at 10:04 AM, Peter Skye said:

>the SCOUG server is down). Maybe spammers are sending to every server
>listed in the DNS?

I wouldn't expect otherwise. To a spammer any valid address is a useful
address.

>I just checked the SMTP connections one more time and ZoneEdit has been
>pumping _something_ to SCOUG over socket 402 for over ten minutes.

Hopefully it was inbound and not outbound. :-)

>[much online log checking done here] InetMail doesn't report all
>connections in its logs (very weird indeed).

Given the ancient version we are running anything is possible.

>> Which means something is confused about authority.

>Hmm. This is the A record info. What do you see that's confusing?
>Reporting only the cached value?

Not confusing. Just odd. The OS/2 nslookup is a tad brain dead when it
formats the DNS responses. I am querying the authority, and it tells me
to query the same address for authoritative answers.

Steven

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