Re: qmail and DNS

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Sill
Marcus Korte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >is there an remarkable performance improvement, if the mailserver has a >local DNS cache (instead of contacting a external nameserver)? Potentially. If your current nameserver is not very fast and you switch to a local dnscache that's properly configured,

qmail and DNS

2001-02-16 Thread Marcus Korte
Hi all, is there an remarkable performance improvement, if the mailserver has a local DNS cache (instead of contacting a external nameserver)? Best regards, Marcus -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-18 Thread Eric Davis
> TEMPFAIL means exactly what it means, a temporary failure, so the > message gets rescheduled for another delivery attempt. > > This particular situation is very common when a domain has been shut > down before the expiration date of the domain's registration with > Internic. The hotmial.com z

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-15 Thread Sam
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Eric Davis wrote: > > 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 interpr

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Eric Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > 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 in

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-15 Thread Eric Davis
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. Hmm

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 15 October 1999 at 12:00:29 -0300 > > If there is no MX record for a given domain is it not standard practice > that an A record is tried? Yes, it is. Qmail follows that practice. However, modifying the initial question slightly to account for this,

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-15 Thread Eric Dahnke
If there is no MX record for a given domain is it not standard practice that an A record is tried? - Eric Eric Davis escribió: > > I have noticed that there are message for invalid domain names > sitting in my mail servers queue. It's not a problem to have > stuff in the queue, but is there a

Qmail and DNS failures

1999-10-15 Thread Eric Davis
I have noticed that there are message for invalid domain names sitting in my mail servers queue. It's not a problem to have stuff in the queue, but is there a way to tell qmail if some- thing does not have a valid MX record to bounce it rigth away back to the user? I can understand that this beh

Re: Problems with qmail and dns

1999-09-06 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 06:18:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > With some mail servers,when sending mail, I'm getting this problem, but > everything seems well configured for my domain which is: sintesoft.net > (check it out with nslookup) > > Any idea?. > > >o_206.250.5.2_but_sender

Re: Problems with qmail and dns

1999-09-06 Thread Brad Shelton
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 06:18:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > With some mail servers,when sending mail, I'm getting this problem, but > everything seems well configured for my domain which is: sintesoft.net > (check it out with nslookup) > > Any idea?. > > >o_206.250.5.2_but_sender

Problems with qmail and dns

1999-09-06 Thread martin
Hi, With some mail servers,when sending mail, I'm getting this problem, but everything seems well configured for my domain which is: sintesoft.net (check it out with nslookup) Any idea?. o_206.250.5.2_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_451_<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>..._Sender_domain_must_resolv

Re: qmail and dns

1999-07-28 Thread Russell Nelson
Simon Rae writes: > Out of curiosity, can anyone tell me of a site or explain to me how > qmail handles DNS queries. Is it the case that even if a DNS lookup > returns the IP address of the recipient MX, if that host is down, qmail > returns the message with a 5.1.2 You'll only get a 5.1.2 if

qmail and dns

1999-07-27 Thread Simon Rae
Out of curiosity, can anyone tell me of a site or explain to me how qmail handles DNS queries. Is it the case that even if a DNS lookup returns the IP address of the recipient MX, if that host is down, qmail returns the message with a 5.1.2 ,or is this the case when the address points to an actual