dig a vanity domain

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Tue Dec 24 11:38:26 UTC 2013


Thufir,

On 24/12/13 11:04, thufir wrote:
> Does this dig result:
> 
> 	
> 
>     thufir at dur:~$
>     thufir at dur:~$ dig MX dur.bounceme.net
>      
>     ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> MX dur.bounceme.net
>     ;; global options: +cmd
>     ;; Got answer:
>     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49611
>     ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>      
>     ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>     ;dur.bounceme.net.              IN      MX
>      
>     ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>     bounceme.net.           46      IN      SOA     nf1.no-ip.com. 
> hostmaster.no-ip.com. 2009182233 90 120 604800 60
>      
>     ;; Query time: 38 msec
>     ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>     ;; WHEN: Tue Dec 24 02:50:38 2013
>     ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 103
>      
>     thufir at dur:~$
> 
> 
> 
> mean that mail to to <someone>@dur.bounceme.com will be resolved to my 
> computer?

Possibly. There is no 'answer' section returned by dig which means
dur.bounceme.net does not have an MX record. Thus, any mail sent to
xxx at dur.bounceme.net will be delivered directly to dur.bounceme.net,
wherever that may be.

Regards,
Tony.
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