On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, CyberPeasant wrote:
> I notice that "starwolf.com" (your return addr) is not in the DNS.
> Unless it was registered recently, I suspect a problem somewhere.
> (You should probably be masquerading your mail as "idiom.com" or wherever
> you get your mail, if s'wolf is an unregistered domain)

Um, looks fine to me:
starwolf.com.   604800  MX      10 idiom.com.
starwolf.com.   604800  MX      5 starwolf.starwolf.com.
starwolf.com.   604800  MX      100 sneech.idiom.com.

starwolf.starwolf.com.  604800  A       207.33.232.91

> [root@lucy bin]# telnet 209.66.121.17 42  
> Trying 209.66.121.17...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> [root@lucy bin]#  (note, the machine did answer a ping).

42 is the wrong port; named runs on 53.

sloth ~> telnet 209.66.121.17 53
Trying 209.66.121.17...
Connected to above.idiom.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

Anyways, most DNS queries use UDP, not TCP... (I think only zone
transfer uses TCP?)

As for Greywolf's original problem, I dunno... maybe run tcpdump and see
what sorts of things are being sent out the ISP link.
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