You don't need to ask them. Just change it on your machine, or router, to any of the many publicly available DNS servers.
One option is http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Note the MX record is a Mail eXchange record, only for e-mail.

OK. Talk me through it one step at a time, please.

My outgoing mail, addressed to say davea@ssl.berkeley.edu, gets passed by smtp to mail.btopenworld.com

About half an hour later, I get an email back from MAILER-DAEMON@nm16.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

It says "No MX or A records for ssl.berkeley.edu"

Anyone know an open-relay SMTP server that does have (or have access to) an MX record for ssl.berkeley.edu?

LOL

I don't believe you will find an Open-Relay SMTP Server. If so,
they are all blacklisted by all Mail Provider because of Spamming. :D

Helli

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LOL

I don't believe you will find an Open-Relay SMTP Server. If so,
they are all blacklisted by all Mail Provider because of Spamming. :D

Helli

Precisely. That's why I use the SMTP server - with authentication - provided by my ISP. That way, my outgoing mail doesn't get blacklisted or treated as spam.

Move to a different DNS. see if that works.

OpenDNS works:

DNS1: 212.242.40.3
DNS2: 212.242.40.51

OK, could someone using these super-wizzy dns records please use one of them to send an email to davea@ssl.berkeley.edu, reporting that there seems to be a problem with Changeset [23079], and would he terribly much mind having a look at http://aqua.dwavesys.com/forum_thread.php?id=747? Ta.

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It says "No MX or A records for ssl.berkeley.edu"...

I get

Got answer:
HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 5, rcode = NOERROR
header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail.
questions = 1, answers = 1, authority records = 0, additional = 0

QUESTIONS:
ssl.berkeley.edu, type = MX, class = IN
ANSWERS:
-> ssl.berkeley.edu
MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = mailwall.ssl.berkeley.edu
ttl = 300 (5 mins)

That mailwall machine appears to respond to pings at least, doesn't of course prove whether or not the mail server process hasn't crashed or something, and my ISP just keeps nameserver entries longer than ttl.

You could always setup Linux, with mail server, in a VM & put in manual entries.

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You could always setup Linux, with mail server, in a VM & put in manual entries.

Or I could just wait until the developers at AQUA get so fed up with the quality-control procedures at BOINC Central that they just drive down the Pacific Coast Highway and tell David where to put his shiny new IBM grant, personally.

Or I could just wait until the developers at AQUA get so fed up with the quality-control procedures at BOINC Central that they just drive down the Pacific Coast Highway and tell David where to put his shiny new IBM grant, personally

There's procedures now ? Anyway it is worthy of Panic, since mention of the IBM grant reminds me your DNS requests are probably being forwarded to Watson, who believes Toronto is a US city.

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

Or I could just wait until the developers at AQUA get so fed up with the quality-control procedures at BOINC Central that they just drive down the Pacific Coast Highway and tell David where to put his shiny new IBM grant, personally

There's procedures now ? Anyway it is worthy of Panic, since mention of the IBM grant reminds me your DNS requests are probably being forwarded to Watson, who believes Toronto is a US city.

Actually, there are 8 Toronto's in the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_%28disambiguation%29

Don't you feel smarter now?

Don't you feel smarter now?

Indeed! Even an Australian one too :P OK, I give in, Watson knows everything & should be quite capable of correctly forwarding Richard's email, Panic off.

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

Happy to have enhanced you calm (movie reference). :)

208.68.240.16 setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu
208.68.240.20 setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu

Remember to take both those out once you (or your ISP) have got your local DNS lookups sorted out.

This helped me too. W/o hosts modification I was not able to upload whole day.

Any one else having upload problems,haven't been able to upload since 8.00pm england time.just keeps saying internet access ok project servers may be down.

Any one else having upload problems,haven't been able to upload since 8.00pm england time.just keeps saying internet access ok project servers may be down.

No problems at all uploading, downloading or reporting from here. Fortunately I am not trying to send eMail to Berkeley as I am also with BT (just like Richard).

F.

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Any time my ISP has DNS issues.. I use 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1.

Using nslookup and asking 4.2.2.2 to get the MX records for ssl.berkeley.edu looks like it is doing what it is supposed to.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Any time my ISP has DNS issues.. I use 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1.

Using nslookup and asking 4.2.2.2 to get the MX records for ssl.berkeley.edu looks like it is doing what it is supposed to.

Would you mind forwarding that one-liner I described in message 1080151, and see how you get on?

I did try re-sending it about 20 minutes ago, but we're still within the "wait for bounce" window.

Still can't upload,got some einstein wu's running off and they are uploading fine.Seti all say "can't resolve host name internet access ok project servers may be down".Rebooted pc and server,any ideas?.

Still can't upload,got some einstein wu's running off and they are uploading fine.Seti all say "can't resolve host name internet access ok project servers may be down".Rebooted pc and server,any ideas?.

The one that worked for Raistmer, five messages ago?

Sorry absolutely useless at networking issues so have no idea what that means.

Sorry absolutely useless at networking issues so have no idea what that means.

Well, I'm sorry, but I'm a day-shift sort of person, and half-past midnight in the same time-zone as you isn't really a safe time to start your first tutorial in networking.

If you're up all night, I'm sure there's an American network tutor around who'll be able to talk you through it: otherwise, I suggest we both stop worrying about it overnight, and pick up in the morning if it's still not sorted then.