Steve Linberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I want to thank everybody who's responded so far, again; it's been a very
> helpful dialog, and Christopher Davis's recent message shed a lot of
> useful light on the subject. It sounds like it may not be a qmail problem
> after all, but a problem with the way MSN's DNS responds to ANY queries?
Sure sounds like it.
[re: smtproutes]
> Thank you to everyone who responded. This seemed like a band-aid at
> first, but in light of Christopher's message it seems like it might have
> to be a solution, until/unless MSN fixes their server.
As someone else noted, it's a catch-22 -- does qmail do CNAME queries,
which would avoid this problem? Well, no, because then it causes
problems with other BIND servers. If MSN is the only one with problems
with ANY queries, I think the current behaviour is best.
> I suppose if that IP address goes bad, I'll start hearing about it in
> the logs, right?
Yes -- you'll see lots of "couldn't establish connection" deferrals to
MSN.
Charles
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