On 10/14/20 8:07 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
Last Mon, Oct 12th. The last message I received from the mailing
list was on Oct 1st.
The last message I see (prior to mine) from geeks@sunhelp was last
Thursday, October 8th.
so I take it the original domain went down on Oct 11th at ~7am; OTOH
sunhelp.org itself has yet two years to go (as you have also observed).
*nod*
I suppose the list server relies on the same nameservers in a way
that prevents e-mail distribution from happening.
I don't think so. At least I thought that the hot wiring that I did to
my mail server only effected /sending/ of email.
The changes I made to the DNS server would have effected /receiving/ of
email.
I have successfully sent a message to the geeks@sunhelp mailing list
/and/ received my copy of said message from said mailing list.
I have since resubmitted the same message manually to sunhelp.org's
SMTP receiver (the original message is still in the outgoing mail
queue:
smtp/sunhelp.org: B/W/23993316: (196 tries, expires in 2d17h) smtp;
466 (No DNS response for host: sunhelp.org; h_errno=0)
) to see what happens and got a DSN ack even, but the message did
not get through.
Were you sending a message to geeks@sunhelp or a different address?
I accidentally sent a message to geeks@sunhelp from the wrong address
and did receive the DSN from Mailman stating that I wasn't subscribed
(with that address) and thus the message was rejected.
So local hot wiring of name resolution (which I suppose could be as
easy as adding a /etc/hosts entry rather than going through the hoops
of setting up a manipulated name server) might be good enough to get
at the web pages, but not to get the list going.
Ya ... email tends to be more reliant on DNS. At least unless you
explicitly tell it to not use it for specific domains. And that's
exactly what I did. I hard (hot) wired email routing so that email for
sunhelp.org goes to ohno.mrbill.net, which is resolvable do to my DNS
hot wiring (forwarders).
You can probably do similar or configure the email routing to go to the
IP directly.
--
Grant. . . .
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