Quoting Charles Daminato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> All valid points, and of course you're correct.
Not all valid:
I guess Taco Scargo said (but who really knows thanks to Outlook's
lame quoting and attribution):
> > And therefore e.g. e-mail servers would not bounce e-mails 'because the
> > domain does not exist', but have it queued because the mail
> > exchanger would
This should never happen for a transient DNS outage. A working
(meaning, unbroken and RFC-compliant) mail server will defer and queue
an email unless it receives an authoritative response that the domain
does not exist from the parent domain's name server(s), which for
.com, .net, etc, are the gtld name servers.
The rest of the points made I can agree with.
Aaron
