[geeks] speaking of proper setup..

[Bill Bradford]

Hrm, when Amy tried to email Greg:

<woods at weird.com>: host mail.weird.com[204.92.254.2] said: 550-5.1.8 reject
    sender 'scoobydoo at ohno.mrbill.net'. 550-5.1.8 Sender address target domain
    'ohno.mrbill.net' is not valid for 550-5.1.8 e-mail use.  There is no MX
    record for it. 550-5.1.8  550-5.1.8 Please forward this message to your own
    LOCAL postmaster and ask 550-5.1.8 them to contact us regarding this issue.
    550-5.1.8  550-5.1.8 Postmaster@[207.200.6.75]: Please contact 550-5.1.8
    <postmaster at most.weird.com> (via an unblocked server of course!) 550-5.1.8
    for assistance in resolving this issue.  You must include your IP 550-5.1.8
    number, given above, in order to receive any help, and including 550 5.1.8
    this entire status reply is ideal.

No MX record for ohno.mrbill.net?  Strange..

bash-2.03$ dig mrbill.net mx
<snip>

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mrbill.net.             86400   IN      MX      0 ohno.mrbill.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ohno.mrbill.net.        86400   IN      A       207.200.6.75

Oh, he IS really anal, he wants MX for EACH AND EVERY HOST!

bash-2.03$ dig ohno.mrbill.net mx

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> ohno.mrbill.net mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61542
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ohno.mrbill.net.               IN      MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mrbill.net.             86400   IN      SOA     ohno.mrbill.net. hostmaster.mrbill.net. 2001060128 10800 3600 604800 86400

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 14 20:09:26 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 80

Jeeezus.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX