Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:45:26 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port of TkCVS & Tkdiff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960803154346.218C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <3237.839075754@time.cdrom.com>
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CC: list trimmed a bit On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > There is a mail relay in Europe. Several in fact. Look in the DNS for > > > mail-relay.de.freebsd.org, mail-relay.fr.freebsd.org and so on. > > > > Neither of these were found by my mailer - no difference. It just timed > > out trying to contact ref.tfs.com or somesuch. Dig didn't show any MX > > sites for freebsd.org other than in America - so it was screwed-up a bit. > > Huh? What are you talking about? Why would a *relay* be contacted by > your mailer directly? :-) The relays are known only to freefall, which > intelligently redistributes outgoing mail accordingly. Your machie > still has to be able to get to freefall or one of its backup MX hosts. > That's what the problem was - it wasn't, all the (then visible, haven't checked later) MX hosts were in US and timed miserably out. Sander > Jordan >
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