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Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Tue Sep 13 09:55:36 2005

At 09:31 AM 13/09/2005, Steven Champeon wrote:

Does anyone know what their mail infrastructure looks like? From what I
can see, they don't even have an MX record for fema.gov...
No MX record, and the A record for fema.gov does not accept smtp traffic.

# telnet fema.gov smtp
Trying 205.128.1.44...
telnet: connect to address 205.128.1.44: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
#
Then again, it might be that they use different email addresses ? @dhs.gov ?

> set type=soa
> fema.gov
Server: ns.fema.gov
Address: 166.112.200.142

fema.gov
origin = ns.fema.gov
mail addr = root.ns2.fema.gov
serial = 2005090901
refresh = 10800 (3H)
retry = 3600 (1H)
expire = 604800 (1W)
minimum ttl = 1800 (30M)
fema.gov nameserver = ns.fema.gov
fema.gov nameserver = ns2.fema.gov
ns.fema.gov internet address = 166.112.200.142
ns2.fema.gov internet address = 162.83.67.144

Looks Solaris'ish

# telnet ns2.fema.gov smtp
Trying 162.83.67.144...
Connected to ns2.fema.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ns2.fema.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:49:36 -0400 (EDT)

---Mike