On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:51:22PM -0000, http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert wrote: > Your NS310.CSOFT.NET name service is down. Because of the way /etc/resolv.conf is set up and because this is down, lookups for the mail server name is not working. (NS371.CSOFT.NET seems to be working so mail retrieval can be done by IP address.) > > FYI. > This has been corrected. There was a parse error in csoft.net's zone file, ie. the big enchilada of zone files. There must be a better way. The Smtp server was not down. This issue was a dns failure. nekhbet