Thanks for the great references.  I found a couple of other problems with
your dnsreport.com link as well.  Obviously I have a bit to learn about DNS.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Newton, Host" <jamesnewton@PICLIST.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [OT:] Sendmail and the PICLIST


> For any DNS problems:
> http://www.dnsreport.com
>
> And for your domain the report
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=nerdulator.net shows
> several problems.
>
> ns1.everydns.net is missing from your nameserver
> ns1.nerdulator.net. has a CNAME entry (nerdulator.net)
> NO MX records for nerdulator.net
>
> And if you want to see the actual binary response from a DNS server with a
> breakout of each record, you can use my little toy at:
> http://techref.massmind.org/techref/dnsbreakout.asp
>
>
>
http://techref.massmind.org/techref/dnsbreakout.asp?domain=nerdulator.net&dn
> sip=&qtype=255
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert B.
> > Sent: 2004 May 18, Tue 08:53
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: [OT:] Sendmail and the PICLIST
> >
> > I moved my server to a different location (now behind a
> > router) and am now running into problems with Sendmail
> > sending messages through the mitvma.mit.edu domain.  It seems
> > to be a problem with the piclist server trying to
> > reverse-lookup my mail host.  For reference, my server's
> > domain is "nerdulator.net" and the machine's name is "nerdulator".
> >
> > EHLO nerdulator.net gives a proper response, but EHLO
> > nerdulator.nerdulator.net gives a timeout error, as well as
> > EHLO anything.whatever
> >
> > Is this a problem anybody else has had?  I got around it by
> > just changing the system's hostname to "nerdulator.net" with
> > no computer name, but I understand that this is generally a
> > bad idea for various reasons.
> >
> > Any sendmail gurus out there?  Comments are appreciated.
> >
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