Note to self: "NEVER POST SEQUENTIAL NAME SERVER ADDRESSES". Has everyone jumped up and down on this one? ;o) Sam. steve ulrich wrote: >when last we saw our hero (Tuesday, Sep 02, 2003), > Nate Carlson was madly tapping out: > > >>On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Adam Maloney wrote: >> >> >>>I believe if MX lookup fails (nameserver unreachable and not in >>>local cache), the sending side will queue it locally and re-try >>>later. >>> >>> >>..assuming that their dns and mail servers work properly. :) >> >> > >and you'd be surprised how many are illconfigured in this regard, or >maybe you wouldn't. having administered some large mail systems i've >seen some really nasty burps in this department. having seen a >tremendous amount of really broked stuff, i prefer to protect myself >against the idiots. > > > >>If my MX host is down, I much prefer to know that my mail is going >>to a backup MX host under my control where I can make sure it sticks >>around until the primary MX is back up. >> >> > >hear hear ... preferrably off a different segment than my dns server. >;-) > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list