I had a nice challenge tracking down lost MX records today. A client moved their hosting to us and didn't mention that they had email hosted with their domain.
I ended up using two tools.
http://whoisrequest.org/history/ let me lookup the old NS servers for the domain.
and then http://www.geektools.com/digtool.php let me "dig" them for the old MX settings. I was then able to transfer over the correct settings to our servers. The trick is to put the old name server in the box that says "query nameserver" so that you're not just getting current data. Oh, and switching type to MX (or all, for the overly curious).
For those of you wondering what an MX record is... its the way a domain name knows where email is hosted. Without it, email fails.
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