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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: uunet
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:26:16PM +0000, Tim Thorne wrote: > > "Dave Howe" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >there then followed a short conversation that amounted to that - given that > >$mydomain was working fine, they would *not* look at the problem for > >$contractorsdomain unless $contractor contacted them about it. I found > >[email protected] worked fine, so managed to get *that* guy to > >get uunet to fix the problem (and it was literally a thirty second fix). > > You can hardly expect an ISP to change an MX record on the opinion > (right or wrong) of a third party. It could be someone trying a little Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original poster wasn't trying to get UUnet to change an MX record. Rather, the uunet-provided MX host for the domain was not set up to 'relay' mail for that domain, and the original poster was trying to get UUnet to fix their MTA config. -j
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