[LUAU] RR SMTP should resolve with OpenDNS

[Al Plant]

Stanfield, Doug wrote:
> Al,
> 
> The dead cable was inter island and has been fixed for a while.  The DNS and other issues were resolved in the early hours this morning by fixing misbehaving or misapplied route filters.
> 
> -Doug-
> 
> 
> On 12/3/10 3:31 PM, "Al Plant" <noc at hdk5.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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Aloha Doug,

You are da man!

I just got an email from my DNS host Zone EDIT and the tech said they 
too are seeing the issue now resolved from there end.

Happy Holidays.

~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii -  Phone:  808-284-2740
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