From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 3 05:40:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA04130 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 05:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA04118 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 05:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01083; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:45:27 +0300 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:45:26 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Ollivier Robert , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port of TkCVS & Tkdiff In-Reply-To: <3237.839075754@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 >