[PLUG-TALK] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)

[Rich Shepard]

   This is not linux-specific, as far as I can determine, but a 'Net mail
transport issue.

   I have a colleague in California who recently established her own company
domain name. Most of the time my messages are rejected:

                    The mail system

<alice at aarichandasociates.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service
     error for name=aarichandasociates.com type=A: Host not found

   Yet, a couple get through unimpeded. Is the issue on my end or hers?

   Here's what I've found:

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ dig mx aarichandassociates.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P4 <<>> mx aarichandassociates.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58897
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aarichandassociates.com.       IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
aarichandassociates.com. 3600   IN      MX      50 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
aarichandassociates.com. 3600   IN      MX      10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
aarichandassociates.com. 3600   IN      MX      20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
aarichandassociates.com. 3600   IN      MX      30 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
aarichandassociates.com. 3600   IN      MX      40 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.

;; Query time: 164 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 18 06:53:03 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 171

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ whois 'aarichandassociates.com'

    Domain Name: AARICHANDASSOCIATES.COM
    Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
    Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
    Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
    Name Server: NS05.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
    Name Server: NS06.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
    Status: clientDeleteProhibited
    Status: clientRenewProhibited
    Status: clientTransferProhibited
    Status: clientUpdateProhibited
    Updated Date: 15-jan-2010
    Creation Date: 15-jan-2010
    Expiration Date: 15-jan-2013

Registrant:
    Domains by Proxy, Inc.
    DomainsByProxy.com
    15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
    Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
    United States

    Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
    Domain Name: AARICHANDASSOCIATES.COM
       Created on: 15-Jan-10
       Expires on: 15-Jan-13
       Last Updated on: 15-Jan-10

    Administrative Contact:
       Private, Registration  AARICHANDASSOCIATES.COM at domainsbyproxy.com
       Domains by Proxy, Inc.
       DomainsByProxy.com
       15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
       Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
       United States
       (480) 624-2599      Fax -- (480) 624-2598

    Technical Contact:
       Private, Registration  AARICHANDASSOCIATES.COM at domainsbyproxy.com
       Domains by Proxy, Inc.
       DomainsByProxy.com
       15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
       Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
       United States
       (480) 624-2599      Fax -- (480) 624-2598

    Domain servers in listed order:
       NS05.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
       NS06.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

   Any insights you network admins have will be appreciated. I don't see
where the DNS error might originate.

TIA,

Rich