Re: Anyone else having trouble sending mail the EarthLink domains?

"J.T. Moore" <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Oct 2010 08:54:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.ldap
Message-ID <0029022B6AC044A8B7F73A13DD042913@tanis>
Weird.  I'm getting a timeout error both from bind and windows 2003 dns 
server on different networks.

What happens when you query the EarthLink authorative name servers directly?

    dig -t ANY earthlink.net @itchy.earthlink.net

I get:

    ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> -t ANY earthlink.net 
@itchy.earthlink.net
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

However, this works:

    dig -t MX earthlink.net @itchy.earthlink.net

    ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> -t MX earthlink.net 
@itchy.earthlink.net
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46974
    ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 6
    ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;earthlink.net.                 IN      MX

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx4.earthlink.net.
    earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx1.earthlink.net.
    earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx2.earthlink.net.
    earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx3.earthlink.net.

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    earthlink.net.          600     IN      NS      scratchy.earthlink.net.
    earthlink.net.          600     IN      NS      itchy.earthlink.net.

    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    mx1.earthlink.net.      600     IN      A       209.86.93.226
    mx2.earthlink.net.      600     IN      A       209.86.93.227
    mx3.earthlink.net.      600     IN      A       209.86.93.228
    mx4.earthlink.net.      600     IN      A       209.86.93.229
    itchy.earthlink.net.    600     IN      A       207.69.188.196
    scratchy.earthlink.net. 600     IN      A       207.69.188.197

    ;; Query time: 54 msec
    ;; SERVER: 207.69.188.196#53(207.69.188.196)
    ;; WHEN: Fri Oct  8 08:43:23 2010
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 250




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From: "Matthias Blaser" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:24 AM
To: "J.T. Moore" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Anyone else having trouble sending mail the EarthLink domains?

> On Friday 08 October 2010 06:52:18 J.T. Moore wrote:
>> It looks like Earthlink has made some changes to their DNS servers this
>> week so that they no longer respond to queries for the ANY/wildcard RR
>> type. [...] To see that the
>> problem is with the ANY query, try doing
>>
>> dig -t ANY earthlink.net
>
> Looks sane to me:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> -t ANY earthlink.net
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47716
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 20, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;earthlink.net.                 IN      ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      SOA     itchy.earthlink.net.
> hostmaster.earthlink.net. 2010081800 3600 300 2592000 1800
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      NS      scratchy.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      NS      itchy.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.204
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.205
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.206
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.207
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.208
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.209
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.210
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.211
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.201
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.202
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      A       209.86.93.203
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx4.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx1.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx2.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      MX      5 mx3.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      NAPTR   0 50 "s" "SIP+D2T" ""
> _sip._tcp.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.          600     IN      NAPTR   0 0 "s" "SIP+D2U" ""
> _sip._udp.earthlink.net.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> itchy.earthlink.net.    600     IN      A       207.69.188.196
>
> ;; Query time: 213 msec
> ;; SERVER: 212.103.64.17#53(212.103.64.17)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Oct  8 14:18:45 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 497
>
>