On 07/11/02 at 13:48, David Muszynski wrote:
> On 7/11/02 1:39 PM, "Global Homes Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >> Unfortunately, a guy who does off-site (out of state, actually)
> >> secondary DNS for me has not yet deleted the zones for these domains
> >> from his name server. So, senders are still able to get a valid MX
> >> for their domains and mail still arrives for them. Since there are no
> >> appropriate accounts on my SIMS server for the arriving email, they
> >> sit in my queue.
> >
> > If the off-site name server is serving the zone as a
> > secondary/slave server, it should eventually expire the data after
> > it can no longer get zone transfers from your master server. How
> > long that takes depends on the 'refresh' and 'expires' values in
> > the zone's SOA.
>
> If the messages are coming from a secondary then doesn't that defeat the
> anti-spamming features such as 'relay for clients only'?
The issue here is secondary _name_ servers, not secondary mail servers. In
this case, there's a secondary name server that's still authoritatively
handing out MX records that are no longer valid.
--
Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.globalhomes.com/>
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