On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mark Symonds wrote:
> This is odd:
>
> $ nslookup worldnet.att.net
> Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> *** localhost can't find worldnet.att.net: Non-existent host/domain
>
> Anyone else have this symptom?
Yes, but it shouldn't matter! What you should have said was
nslookup -type=mx worldnet.att.net
to look up the MX records (of which there are plenty). The folk at
worldnet have obviously got fed up with broken mailers that look up an A
record for worldnet.att.net. Mind you, why they just don't delete the
record I don't know. Setting it to 127.0.0.1 doesn't actually help
anybody.
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