what happened to everyone?

[Brian Densmore]

Thanks Everybody for the great ideas! I figured out the mail. On a hunch, I
added "www" to the addresses, and yahoo liked that! Go figure! Not sure what
would cause this!? Must be related to the name servers (not mine, my ISP
host).

BTW, there was a post recently for the Computer Outlet down at 7803 Quivera.
It is a really great place. They still have some 486 laptops for $100 (not
good enough for my power hungry self, got a 380z ThinkPad). And lot's of
other neat stuff, plus they actually have a Linux guy there. Great service,
too!
http://www.cyberspacemarket.com/computers/home.asp?c=home

Best Regards,
Brian

Brian Densmore <mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>  

 
Associate 
Computech Business Solutions <http://www.ctbsonline.com>  
voice: (816) 880-0988
fax: (816) 880-0998
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Crocker [mailto:glenn at netmud.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:13 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: what happened to everyone?
> 
> 
> 
> >   1. My 3com 3c905b (vortex) isn't coming up in 100MB mode.
> 
> Sorry, no clue on that one.
> 
> >   2. My mail server doesn't seem to be getting mail from 
> Yahoo or AOL
> > (possibly others). All mail sent from these servers gets 
> returned. The
> > domain is registered through Network Solutions and has been 
> for some time
> > (several months). How do I make these people recognize my
> > address? A simple
> > lookup reveals the address of the website, and the name 
> servers. Querying
> > the name servers returns the mail server address? What gives?
> 
> Check /var/log/messages and whatnot and see if the mail 
> server is getting
> contacted but rebuffing Yahoo's advances like a cocky silicon 
> valley startup
> drunk on VC.
> 
> I see this kind of black-hole behavior a lot when DNS has 
> gotten screwy.  If
> you had your domain parked someplace previously, you may need 
> to tell them
> to stop being authoritative for the domain.  A little time 
> with 'dig' and a
> list of IPs that have ever been nameservers for your domain 
> might do the
> trick.  ('dig @123.123.123.123 hostname.com' will do a DNS lookup for
> 'hostname.com' using the DNS server 123.123.123.123, so you 
> can check to be
> sure formerly-authoritative servers are delegating properly.)
> 
> Also see the awesome tools at:  http://www.geektools.com/  
> Their traceroute
> links and whois queries are very handy for this kind of thing.
> 
> Of course, the best thing to do is a 'mail -v' on one of the 
> hosts having
> trouble mailing you, but that's seldom possible.
> 
> -glenn
> 
> 
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