uh? Vodafone shutdown their email ages ago?

They are still supposed to be forwarding mail - can't do that without a live MX ..

$ dig mx clear.net.nz
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;clear.net.nz. IN MX
 
;; ANSWER SECTION:
clear.net.nz. 233 IN MX 20 mx.clear.net.nz.
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
clear.net.nz. 36208 IN NS dns1.clear.net.nz.
clear.net.nz. 36208 IN NS dns2.clear.net.nz.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mx.clear.net.nz. 23 IN A 203.118.158.229

SMTP connection times out.

The paradise.net.nz MX record points to the same host.

zuul.ihug.net is the MX for vodafone.{net,co}.nz and was dead last night when I looked but back up now.

The helpdesk said there was an email outage for hosted domains, but denied all knowledge of a clear.net.nz problem.

Offered to re-apply my address to forward to ...

Had no clue what an MX does and "tier 2 doesn't talk to customers"...

I'm still unable to telnet on port 25 to 203.118.158.229 (mx.clear.net.nz/mx.paradise.net.nz) and outbound mail to this server is sitting in our Exchange queue retrying.

EDIT: Looking at the delayed messages in our queue, it has been down since at least Tuesday afternoon. Nothing on the Vodafone network status page.

@MikeHales

John

Yip definitely an issue. Gmail is throwing back this error to senders. It will keep trying to 45 more hours.

The response was:

The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 [mx.clear.net.nz. 203.118.158.229: timed out]

AntC:

 

[snip]

 

Do you think voda are eventually going to kill off the clear.net domain?

Let's think about it ...

• Benefits to Vodafone from keeping clear.net.nz 'working': goodwill from mostly years-ago former customers, no monetary value whatsoever
• Costs to Vodafone: small but non-zero and slowly but inexorably increasing

What do you think the bean-counters will say?

Yes, I still have a small amount of mail still coming to my old clear.net.nz address, mostly for accounts that have proved difficult / impossible to change. I am resigned to the probability that it will vanish before too much longer.
Sigh.

AntC:
Do you think voda are eventually going to kill off the clear.net domain?

my bet is they will spend less & less time/money into keeping it running . Expect zero maintenance .
One day it will fail & they just wont bother to fix it. Just a matter of time :-)

Plan for the worst, dont get caught out