On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:30:21 -0400, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> Ok, ignoring host entries for foreign systems is ok, but why lookup its
>> own
>> name?
> To make that information available to local filters. Additionally, a
failed
but it should be the same entry fo> 
r every mail, or are there setups where this changes?

> lookup does not prevent mail delivery, but delays it. What probably
> happened 
> is that most senders timed out before the DNS lookup itself timed out,
and 
> Courier was ready to receive mail.

as the DNS caches tried to connect to 3 authoritative servers the timeout
was really long.


> Furthermore, local IP address lookup may not have been a factor anyway.
If 
> you are using the same DNS servers as recursive resolvers, if they are 
> listed in resolv.conf, all DNS lookups will go through your recursive 
> resolvers, including remote IP addresses and senders' domains.
> And if you were using some other DNS server for recursive lookups, the
> first 
> time your recursive DNS server failed to contact all of your
authoritative 
> servers, it should've cached this result, for some time, and all future 
> queries should've probably been bounced back with an immediate SERVFAIL.

I've the 3 DNS servers of the data center I'm hosted in entered in on my
courier system. All three where reachable the whole time. But it took a
long timeout if I queried anything in my Domain. I got an timeout error not
a servfail from them, after min. 2 minutes

> DNS is fundamental. If DNS blows up, you're dead in the water. There's no

> way around having functional DNS.

I know but can I somehow force courier so that it does not lookup its own
hostname?

-- 
Regards,
Robert
-----
Robert Penz

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