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?
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.
But the records could’ve also been left up long after the server was taken down just out of laziness or mismanagement.
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.
And a different conclusion entirely if the records are seeing active updates during the time period :)