Sam wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> > The other two possibilities would seem to be that we're waiting for
> > new DNS to propagate, or that they've been down or disconnected long
> > enough for cached DNS to expire and we're waiting for them to come
> > back up. Hmmm; these two *do* seem like reasons why waiting in this
> > situation might make sense.
>
> Qmail will bounce a recipient only if both MX and X lookups fail with an
> NXDOMAIN error, indicating a permanent failure of the DNS lookup.
>
> If there's any other outcome - no response from the DNS server, or any
> other error - it is interpreted as a transient error, and mail is not
> bounced, but rescheduled for another delivery attempt.
>
> That's the way it should be.
>
> --
> Sam
The domain in question is something like <address>@hotmial.com or any
other varient that we know is not a real domain. (The biggest one we
see is <address>@aol .com or any variation there of) Why do these
addresses not bounce right away since their is no DNS server for them?
-Eric Davis
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