New Server?

William Bill Cockerham bill at cockerham.us
Mon Jul 12 02:13:24 CDT 2004


> On Sunday 11 July 2004 01:52 pm, Gerald Combs wrote:
>
>> The TTL for kclug.org's MX record is 30 minutes:
> ...
>> bam:/home/gerald> host -vt mx kclug.org
>> Trying "kclug.org"
> ...
>> kclug.org.              1800    IN      MX      10 marauder.illiana.net.
> ...
>
> Interestingly enough, I wanted to check that myself so:
>
> nslookup
>> set type MX
> *** Invalid option: type
>> set type=MX
>> kcug.org
> Server:         192.168.76.254
> Address:        192.168.76.254#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> kcug.org        mail exchanger = 10 mail.knoxhost.net.
>
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> kcug.org        nameserver = NS2.knoxhost.net.
> kcug.org        nameserver = NS2.LANBYTES.net.
> kcug.org        nameserver = NS1.knoxhost.net.
> NS1.knoxhost.net        internet address = 216.111.22.35
> NS2.knoxhost.net        internet address = 216.111.22.36
> NS2.LANBYTES.net        internet address = 12.152.97.11
>
>
> Looks like somebody hijacked it!
>
> However, host returned the same result as you got:
>
> kclug.org.              1640    IN      MX      10 marauder.illiana.net.
>
> After which nslookup returned the proper info.
>
> I do wonder how knoxhost.net got into my cache?
>

If this is a direct copy & paste of what you typed, then I can see why. 
You have kcug instead of kclug.  You missed the l.  If that isn't the case
it would take more investigation.

Bill




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