general question about failed DNS request when looking up MXs

Jack De Winter <jack@wildbear.on.ca> Tue, 14 January 1997 00:49 UTC

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:19:43 -0500
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From: Jack De Winter <jack@wildbear.on.ca>
Subject: general question about failed DNS request when looking up MXs
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Okay, here's a general question for the group at large:

You are doing an MX request to resolve an address that
you need to send to.  You get back a Server Error (RCODE=2)
or an illegal return code (RCODE=6..15).  What is the best
thing to do to try and resolve this?

regards,
Jack
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