>
> People are telling you the answer, and you're refusing to listen, I
> find this puzzling, unless you're no longer getting email from the
> list (which seems plausible).
I am afraid that my comprehension of what has been written is limited.
I regret the defect but there it is.
> Every MTA will perform *MX* lookups on the envelope
> sender domain, before it looks for any *A* records. When the *MX*
> lookups fail, your domain is down, and your mail will tempfail.
Thank you. Now I understand what is happening and how my previous
beliefs were misinformed.
>
> $ dig -t mx SAMBA-01.BROCKLEY-2016.HARTE-LYNE.CA
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> -t mx SAMBA-01.BROCKLEY-2016.HARTE-LYNE.CA
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> Your DNS is broken. Fix it! At the .CA level you have:
>
> Below that things look rather grim, your nameservers need attention.
>
We have been experiencing an prolonged outage at our off-site dns
location. The two NS in question are located there. The
establishment of NS at multiple location was intended to handle this
sort of situation. We are dealing with the matter but it involves two
separate upstream providers and is somewhat complicated thereby.
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