Douglas Winship wrote:
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>> The former has improved, a bit, in delivery but the latter still does not
>> work, when the mail is sent from a really picky site, like the U. at
>> Buffalo.  It used to deliver to @mail.ccsi.com just fine, but quit about
>> a week ago.  It is from long distance phone calls to the folk at UB that
>> I heard of the dnsreportback.com stuff; that's what they go by,
>> apparently.
>> Sites that aren't so picky will still deliver to mail.ccsi.com, but that
>> is immaterial; only mail from buffalo.edu to mail.ccsi.com is important
>> to me, as far as mail.ccsi.com goes (no one else uses it).  My regular
>> mail is just sent to plain ccsi.com, which, as I said, has improved in
>> the past 24 hours (after many emails and hours on the phone in the past
>> week).

WBrown replied:
> whois, dig and google can't find anything on dnsreportback.com.  Are they
> possibly refering to dnsreport.com?
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=ccsi.com shows a few
> issues with the DNS for ccsi.com.

Well, maybe it is dnsreport.com  rather than  dnsreportback.com
The latter is what the guy at U. at Buffalo said, I asked him to spell
it, how may "dots" and where do they go, etc. (there longdistnace phone
charge, not mine, of which I was most appreciative).  Of course, he had
to ask his supervior, so it may have been garbled in transmission.

>> Question:  What is a DNS Dope Slap?

> A dope slap is a sharp percussive blow to the back of the offender's
> head. In this case it is intended to get their attention to fix their DNS
> entries.

Ok, I've heard of that before, just wondered if maybe there was now some
"DNS Dope Slap" where, like, reports would be sent to the registered
"responsible parties" (some of those are now invalid for ccsi.com, the
folk don't work there anymore).

By the way, I passed on the info about the MXs and "A"s, and the ccsi.com
have used that to fix a number of things.  Same with the earlier report
which someone sent in response to my initial question.

  Many thanks.

Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]