Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > This isn't a problem as such but I don't understand why it's happening > and I'd like to understand. > [snip details]
This question has provoked quite a lot of, at times, rather heated discussion! I'm sorry if I provoked any of the heat but lots of useful information came out of it all I think. One thread got me looking into what the IPV6 address for isbd.biz was pointing at. It turns out that it wasn't pointing at the right system at all, I'm not sure how this happened but I'll try and explain how it probably/possibly occurred. Quite a few years ago I had quite a few domains hosted at TsoHost who, many years ago, were an excellent hosting provider. However they were taken over and their service and support deteriorated so I moved my domains away from them. I moved most of my mail hosting (and the associated domains) to Mythic Beasts. After a while I had got all my domains away from TsoHost apart from one fly in the ointment which was isbd.biz. The problem with isbd.biz was that it is a 'premium' name and many hosting providers couldn't handle it. Initially Mythic Beasts seemed like they could host it so I started the move to them, however it all went pear-shaped and they found that they couldn't host it. It stayed with TsoHost a little longer and then I found a US based provider called spaceship.com who could host the isbd.biz domain and who were a lot cheaper than Tsohost. So I moved isbd.biz to spaceship.com a year or so ago and it was all working OK, or so I thought. It doesn't actually have much of an existence, there's no web sites on isbd.biz and no significant E-Mail either. My only current use is as the name of a VPS on FastHosts which runs a DavCal calendar server. Having stirred the wasp's nest that was this discussion :-) I discovered that the domain hosting move was very much half done. The IPV4 address was correct, the IPV6 address for some wierd reason pointd at a Mythic Beasts server (maybe happened due to the failed move to Mythic Beasts), the MX record seemed to be OK as it was pointing at my mailboxes on Mythic Beasts. The DNS was still on TsoHost (I **think**). I have now, hopefully, sorted it out somewhat. I've moved the DNS to spaceship's nameservers. The VPS on FastHosts has no IPV6 address (or if it does I'm not using it) so I have removed the AAAA record. It may need some more records for DKIM and SPF but they can wait, at present no mail is sent from the system and very little, if any, is sent to isbd.biz. It's amazing what a little ssh quirk can unearth! :-) -- Chris Green ยท
