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.
>;-)
>
>  
>


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