dig fails to find microsoftsupport.com

david david at daku.org
Mon Feb 28 00:09:06 UTC 2022


At 04:02 PM 2/27/2022, you wrote:
>On Sun, 2022-02-27 at 15:05 -0800, David wrote: > It appears the 
>problem is with DNS.  Looking up using 'dig 
>mx' >    microsoftsupport.com > fails Not for me: kauer at kt1:~$ dig 
>+short microsoftsupport.com mx 0 
>microsoftsupport-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. There is no 
>requirement for an email domain to also be used for anything else, 
>so there is no requirement for an A record of the same name. Sorry, 
>coming in late - what is the actual problem? Does something not 
>work? Regards, K. -- 
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The original problem was the inability to send mail to someone at 
microsoftsupport.com.  I thought it was a Postfix issue, but it was DNS. 





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