On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Janis Kracht wrote to Kees van Eeten:


 JK> Some strange results (kind of):

 JK> host fidonet.org
 JK> fidonet.org mail is handled by 10 mail-sink.seeweb.it. fidonet.org
 JK> mail is handled by 20 lb.smtp.seeweb.it.

 JK> 

not strange, really... fidonet.org doesn't have an IP but subdomains of
fidonet.org do ;)

 JK> host www.fidonet.org
 JK>  www.fidonet.org is an alias for fidonet.fidonet.org.
 JK>  fidonet.fidonet.org has address 85.94.204.146
 JK>  fidonet.fidonet.org has IPv6 address 2001:4b78:2000::1
 JK>  fidonet.fidonet.org mail is handled by 0 0.

 JK> <0 0 handles mail above?>

not sure what that's all about... perhaps www.fidonet.org doesn't have a mail
handler and it is all handled by fidonet.org's mail handler(s)?

 JK> host www.fidonet.org.
 JK> www.fidonet.org is an alias for fidonet.fidonet.org.
 JK> fidonet.fidonet.org has address 85.94.204.146 fidonet.fidonet.org
 JK> has IPv6 address 2001:4b78:2000::1 fidonet.fidonet.org mail is
 JK> handled by 0 0.

 JK> So, no I don't.. I would think www.fidonet.org and fidonet.org
 JK> should return the same info... Someone messed up the Zone records
 JK> over there maybe? 

no, that's actually normal in some cases... it just means that one has to
connect to a subdomain of fidonet.org for any traffic... in the past, i've set
up corporate entities in the same manner because that's what they wanted ;)

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