MailScanner DNS broken?

Bryan Holloway bryan at shout.net
Wed Jan 9 00:55:05 UTC 2019



On 1/8/19 6:51 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 1/8/19 4:35 PM, Bryan Holloway wrote:
>> This may be a little off-topic, but it appears that the authoritatives
>> for mailscanner.info aren't resolving "www." correctly.
>>
>> "mailscanner.info" works just fine, but it redirects to www, which
>> breaks the web-page.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> % dig @ns1.digitalocean.com www.mailscanner.info A +short
>> cax.mailborder.com.
>> %
>>
>> % dig @ns1.digitalocean.com cax.mailscanner.info A +short
>> %
> 
> 
> But, the CNAME is cax.mailborder.com, not cax.mailscanner.info and the
> authoritative DNS for mailborder.com are
> 
>     Name Server: NS-1069.AWSDNS-05.ORG
>     Name Server: NS-1714.AWSDNS-22.CO.UK
>     Name Server: NS-355.AWSDNS-44.COM
>     Name Server: NS-996.AWSDNS-60.NET
> 
> So everything should be OK.
> 

You're absolutely right -- my bad. But I will say that the web-page 
stopped working for about an hour which led me down this (poorly 
executed) rabbit-hole.

And now it's working again.

Weird.

Sorry for the noise ...


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