I’m interested in finding DNS including MX records for a site that has Wayback Machine snapshots from 2002-2005. I have tried various web searches, and attempted to see if this info is available through archive.org in connection to the wayback machine snapshots, but I have not found anything. Am I looking in the wrong place? How do I find this info?

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    That’s pretty limited. DNS records won’t show whether the mail server was up or not.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      If the DNS records for the mail server were missing, it would suggest that they didn’t intend to receive mail, even if a mail server were actually up.

      • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        But the records could’ve also been left up long after the server was taken down just out of laziness or mismanagement.

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          Certainly, and likely. In which case, the DNS records would tell us nothing.

          But we can draw a completely different conclusion if the records were taken down deliberately.

          • det_nya_livetOP
            1·
            1 day ago

            And a different conclusion entirely if the records are seeing active updates during the time period :)

    • det_nya_livetOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      Very true! :) if you have additional ways of showing that a mail server was operational in 2005 I’m happy to hear them :)

      • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Email archives would be best. If not that, look to see if any of the scanners like Censys or Shodan have records back that far showing SMTP running.