slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

[Jay Moore]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote:

> 	For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals
> 	seems to be bounced.  Mail fom this list, however,
> 	and spam (of course :-|) gets through.
>
> 	I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that
> 	may have been causing problems.  The only "hint" is from
> 	a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a
> 	bounce while sending mail to "kline at though.org" (note: no 't')
> 	worked.
>
> 	Any ideas on this?

either your DNS records are/were hosed, or your MTA is mis-config'd.

Try http://www.dnsstuff.com to scope out your DNS records, and remember that 
changes take some time to propogate.

Is your MTA sendmail, exim, or what? Are you set up to use a smart host to 
relay outgoing mail, or are you sending from your host? Are you receiving on 
your host, or POP'ing/IMAP'ing another host?

Jay Moore