On Mon Aug 13 14:31:57 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We've been having good luck with the dns currently on sources. I > don't think I have seen the srvfail problem. The query waits on > reverse lookups seem to have been a symptom of local ndb > misconfiguration, though it would be better if dns coped more sensibly > with that. As I recall, the nameserver(s) for the reverse domain need > to have the relevant ptr records; pointing the reverse domain at the > wrong nameservers (implicitly or explicitly) seems to cause confusion. > > The main outstanding bug that I'm aware of is that aging resource > records seems to corrupt some data structure and dns never recovers. > There are two new control messages intended to help debug this: > "target N" and "age" (see dns.c). But if one doesn't age resource > records, dns can grow without bound.
this is a problem i see with recursive nameservers doing lookups for email validataion, so it's not a question of local server misconfiguration. there's nothing i can do if arin or whoever has the wrong information. - erik
