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>? On my host, it works fine.
You'll have to excuse my precious message (which is currently awaiting
approval by the moderator), but I was under the impression that "dig" worked
where exim and host did not.
Anyway, I went ahead and replaced the DNS I had been using, which is the one
supplied in the "SpeedTouch Alcatel 410" cable modem. I went in and checked
the configuration, and found it was forwarding to two different IPs supplied
by my ISP. So I reactivated bind on my linux host instead, entered said IPs
as forwarders and...
nynaeve:/etc/bind# dig hotmail.com mx
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> hotmail.com mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55390
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 14
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hotmail.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
hotmail.com. 1127 IN MX 5 mx3.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com. 1127 IN MX 5 mx4.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com. 1127 IN MX 5 mx1.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com. 1127 IN MX 5 mx2.hotmail.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hotmail.com. 3537 IN NS ns2.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com. 3537 IN NS ns3.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com. 3537 IN NS ns4.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com. 3537 IN NS ns1.hotmail.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mx3.hotmail.com. 184 IN A 65.54.253.99
mx3.hotmail.com. 184 IN A 65.54.254.140
[...]
;; Query time: 1864 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 11 12:10:53 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 416
Seems that my immediate problem is now solved.
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