dig a vanity domain
thufir
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Tue Dec 24 22:26:42 UTC 2013
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:38:26 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> 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.
I went back and filled in the MX section (hard to find) at noip.com, and
now:
thufir at dur:~$ dig dur.bounceme.net
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> dur.bounceme.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38406
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dur.bounceme.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
dur.bounceme.net. 60 IN A 96.55.205.166
;; Query time: 156 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 24 14:24:31 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50
thufir at dur:~$
which seems redundant, but I guess it's required to have that "answer"
section. The ip address in dig is how mail will eventually make its way
to my computer?
-Thufir
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