Re: qmail-tcpto and non-authoritative DNS

1999-11-16 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Fred Lindberg writes: > Would it make sense to have a similar table (or put into the same > table) also host for which authoritative DNS is not available? DNS caching is the responsibility of your local name server. Old servers supported only ``positive caching''; new servers also support ``negat

qmail-tcpto and non-authoritative DNS

1999-09-30 Thread Fred Lindberg
Hi, I have a mailing list host with many subscribers unreachable due to internet cable problem. Those for which there is authoritative DNS available go into the tcp timeout table and are not retried for 1 h. Those for which authoritative DNS is not available (all on the other side of the break)