[LUAU] RR SMTP should resolve with OpenDNS

[Al Plant]

Dwight Victor (Gmail) wrote:
> Weird...it's working now.
> 
>> That doesn't seem right...  I am using the OpenDNS servers (just 
>> double-checked resolv.conf to make sure), and I get:
>> PING smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com (71.74.56.22) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (71.74.56.22): icmp_seq=1 
>> ttl=242 time=128 ms
>>
>> I'm using RR in the McCully area, but for a non-RR host, that 
>> shouldn't matter...
>>
>> Oddly, the traceroute for what should be a Hawaii-based server dies 
>> after going through RR's Cali tbone.
>>
>> Aloha,
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>> On 12/02/2010 09:45 PM, Dwight Victor (Gmail) wrote:
>>> Yeah, I'm not having trouble resolving anything as I have my own 
>>> caching DNS server with Google's DNS as my primary nameservers.  My 
>>> issue is that my RoadRunner email is hosed.  Even with OpenDNS' 
>>> servers I can't resolve smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com...something is 
>>> royally screwed.
>>>
>>> -bash-3.00# dig @208.67.222.222 smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com
>>>
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I think there is some bigger issue.  For 2 days now I have lost a DNS 
server feed from the mainland off and on and its a Net Enterprise line 
with Hawaii Telcom. But if I recall RR and Oceanic have a dead ocean 
cable and they were using other Pacific services temporarily.



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