Earthlink issues

[Rob Freeman]

Is anyone else having troubles connecting to earthlink?  Every message we
have going to them is getting this type of error:

Name server: mx9.earthlink.net.: host name lookup failure

I ran a dig from my MailScanner machine and got this back for
mx9.earthlink.net

dig mx9.earthlink.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> mx9.earthlink.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44587
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mx9.earthlink.net.             IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mx9.earthlink.net.      474     IN      A       207.217.125.24

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 172.16.40.95#53(172.16.40.95)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr  8 08:52:28 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 51

And then I tried to telnet to the above address, and was able to connect:

telnet 207.217.125.24 25
Trying 207.217.125.24...
Connected to mx9.earthlink.net (207.217.125.24).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 cockatoo EL_3_9_13_6 /EL_3_9_13_6  ESMTP EarthLink SMTP Server Thu, 8
Apr 2004 06:56:06 -0700 (PDT)
ehlo
502

I have messages queueing up in the /var/spool/mqueue folder and they are all
earthlink address's.

Rob