[LUNI] OT: comcast problem

[Janine Starykowicz]

What do you mean by vanity?  It sounds like she is using her website 
email with the sbc mail server.  That is the default setup, I vaguely 
remember having to ask for an open port back when I first set up DSL so 
I could use my own mail server.

Janine

sjk wrote:
> Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
>   
>> Comcast does not recognize the following email address (this is a vanity
>> email address, forwarded to some other address, possibly sbcglobal)
>>
>> lyn at mindfullivingcoach.com
>>
>>
>> One time she sent an email with an sbcglobal return address, so I have
>> been able to respond, but it requires manually entering the other email.
>>
>> I have complained to the owner (Lyn) but she ignores me (she responds,
>> but ignores the issue with the email name not working).  The email
>> address is what she uses as the sender from a bulk newsletter email list.
>>
>> If a few of you want to try send a test message to see if YOUR isp will
>> find them, please feel free.
>>
>> I have checked:
>> gmail: works
>> yahoo: works
>> myway: fails
>> juno: fails
>> hotmail: fails      (hotmail only said it failed, it gave no reason why).
>>
>> Does anybody know of a general pattern of some ISPs not finding some
>> domains, at least for email?
>>
>> zoneedit.com dns lookup finds the domain as follows:
>>
>> mindfullivingcoach.com.     A     209.124.84.34
>>
>>
>> mindfullivingcoach.com     NS     ns1.mtdserver.com.
>> mindfullivingcoach.com     NS     ns2.mtdserver.com.
>>
>>
>>
>>     
> Well, if the DNS server is not reachable the recursive will mark it
> NXDomain for a while. This domain seems to have the ns records screwy:
>
> mindfullivingcoach.com. 14135   IN      NS      ns1.mtdserver.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.mtdserver.com.      86206   IN      A       209.124.84.34
> ns2.mtdserver.com.      172563  IN      A       209.124.84.34
>
> mindfullivingcoach.com. 14400   IN      NS      ns1.mtdserver.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.mtdserver.com.      86400   IN      A       209.124.84.34
> ns2.mtdserver.com.      86400   IN      A       209.124.84.35
>
> the ns whois records for name servers point to 209.124.84.34. . . my
> guess is that this is one box which they attempted to multi-home and may
> have some questionable reliability.
>
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