From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 19 19:29:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70E315063 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 19:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA10378; Thu, 20 May 1999 11:59:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA09942; Thu, 20 May 1999 11:59:00 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:59:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: peter kok Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: dns Message-ID: <19990520115859.Q89091@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37437609.FA2C707D@sweda.com.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37437609.FA2C707D@sweda.com.hk>; from peter kok on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 10:40:09AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 20 May 1999 at 10:40:09 +0800, peter kok wrote: > Hello all > > our customers are over the world so that we send email over the world. > but i always got the the following message from isp for some customers' > emails > > ********************************************** > ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** > ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** > ********************************************** > > The original message was received at Wed, 19 May 1999 22:03:00 +0800 > from [172.16.132.77] > > ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 451 ... alacarte.cc: Name server timeout > Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours > Will keep trying until message is 5 days old > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > The ISP replied us that their DNS couldn't sevice all over million > address. therefore, this case is normal. some DNS couldn't be > contacted when sending. > > Are they right? Yes. Of course, it doesn't say much about their DNS configuration if they have frequent name server timeouts. You could suggest to them that they get an old PC, install FreeBSD on it, and use it as a name server. > how do i solve this problem? Ignore it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message