On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Creedon, Ted wrote:
> Looks like hotmail.com is timing out on the nslookup
> tedc@tarka:~ > nslookup rez256.uleth.ca hotmail.com
> *** Can't find server name for address 64.4.52.7: No response from server
nslookup is generally consider a bad tool to use for doing DNS
testing -- the error messages it returns often are confusing and/or
irrelevant. You may find better results with dig or dnsquery.
Anyways, as far as I know, hotmail.com (which is really many
servers) doesn't run a world-accessible name server. It will always time
out.
> > 2001-08-13 15:33:10 refused relay (host) to <ferhanbhanji@???>
> > from <aly.dharshi@???> H=(rez256.uleth.ca) [142.66.73.2] (failed
> > to find host name from IP address)
And this error has nothing to do with hotmail. All this means is that
142.66.73.2 doesn't have an in-addr.arpa/reverse lookup to provide the
hostname. (Ask the ULETH.CA admins to fix this.)
Jeremy C. Reed
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