Re: rep.mailspike.net

Bill Cole <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-05-20 at 14:38:40 UTC-0400 (Tue, 20 May 2025 18:38:40 +0000)
Rupert Gallagher <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> I wonder how it works for real, since mailspike.net itself fails DNS 
> resolution.

Not so.

	$ dig mailspike.net NS

	; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> mailspike.net NS
	;; global options: +cmd
	;; Got answer:
	;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53129
	;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4

	;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
	; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
	;; QUESTION SECTION:
	;mailspike.net.			IN	NS

	;; ANSWER SECTION:
	mailspike.net.		10996	IN	NS	ns11.mailspike.net.
	mailspike.net.		10996	IN	NS	ns13.mailspike.net.
	mailspike.net.		10996	IN	NS	ns12.mailspike.net.

	;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
	ns11.mailspike.net.	10996	IN	A	185.175.91.11
	ns12.mailspike.net.	10996	IN	A	185.175.91.12
	ns13.mailspike.net.	10996	IN	A	185.175.91.13

	;; Query time: 12 msec
	;; SERVER: 192.168.254.111#53(192.168.254.111)
	;; WHEN: Wed May 21 08:29:44 EDT 2025
	;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 147

There is no need for any domain to have an A record for resolutions of 
hosts and subdomains to resolve correctly. It is the NS record that 
matters.

> On Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 6:57 PM, Reindl Harald (privat) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
[SNIP]

Ignore "Harry," who has been banned from the list but continues to 
respond by direct mail to posters privately in his inimitable 
aggressively incorrect style.



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