[OT] Re: [ILUG] announce: galway lug list

[Philip Reynolds]

kevin lyda's [kevin at ie.suberic.net] 25 lines of wisdom included:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:52:24PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> > this is to announce the creation of the wesht-linux at doolin.com mailing
> 
> damn, i forgot.
> 
> don't try to send mail to this list via eircom's mail server.  they still
> seem to think they're the mx for this domain and bounce pretty much all
> email to it.  although they'll silently accept mail to some addresses -
> my boss for example.
> 
> does anyone have any idea who i can call to lodge an official complaint?
> we are actually having problems conducting business at this point.

Hi Kevin,

We had serious problems here with a domain being transferred to us
for web and mail purposes. Eircom are still the SOA at the moment
for the domain, however we are the lowest priority MX for that
domain.

Of course, Eircom's sensible mail program (I presume it's using some
form of virtual domain table) is deciding to keep all mail for that
domain as it's recognised as being local. 

This means that anyone sending mail through Eircom's mail servers to
that domain will have the mail end up in some old POP mailboxes
which were setup for that domain a long time ago. It took quite a
bit of studying mail headers and trying to engineer Eircom's
engineers to figure it out.

Unfortunately because we can't change DNS just yet and Eircom won't
remove these without removing the whole package which isn't
favourable. Quite clever.

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  Philip Reynolds        
   RFC Networks          tel: 01 8832063
www.rfc-networks.ie      fax: 01 8832041