On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:34:05AM -0500, R. Scott Perry wrote:

| >BTW, when their webmaster@... and postmaster@dhs.gov mailboxes
| >bounced, I used their web feedback form.  That form script sends
| >email with MY email as the return address, to feedback@...
| >which also bounced, and I got the bounce.
| 
| That's because their MX records aren't 
| valid.  http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/mail.ch?domain=postmaster@dhs.gov 
| shows that their MX records do not contain hostnames (instead, they contain 
| IP addresses, which aren't valid in MX records).
| 
| I'm going to hard-code their IP in our mailserver and let them know about that.

Hmmm.  That wasn't there earlier when I ran a dnsreport.  But it is
there now.  I guess things are actively being broken.

I guess I have to not jump to conclusions and remember a variation of
an old saying:

"Do not attribute to hacking that which can be attributed to incompetence."

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[isp-dns] US Department of Homeland Security - broken DNS for www.dhs.gov, Phil Howard

[isp-dns] Re: US Department of Homeland Security - broken DNS for www.dhs.gov, R. Scott Perry