Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:16:51 -0500
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At 10:25 11/08/1999 Monday , Tim Burnham wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have ListServ Lite and it requires the Runmode to be Tableless. For a
>default address, I have "SWGATE.LSOFT.COM", but I'm not able to Ping it
>successfully so I think its not the correct value I should have to reach the
>Lsoft "backbone".
An email address very well might NOT be PINGable. A realtime translation
is done for the part to the right of the @ e.g.,
Using a DiG client and doing an MX lookup reveals
Query:Mail Exchange (MX):SWGATE.LSOFT.COM
SWGATE.LSOFT.COM MX 10 vms.dc.lsoft.com <- this is the Internet host that
"handles" the mail for SWGATE
vms.dc.lsoft.com A 209.119.1.27
vms.dc.lsoft.com A 209.119.0.2
Complete: SWGATE.LSOFT.COM
Query:Address (A):SWGATE.LSOFT.COM
Doing an "A" record lookup for SWGATE gives a negative response:
Authoritative Answer
Server has no data for this query
Complete:NO_DATA SWGATE.LSOFT.COM
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