Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:21:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com>, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures Message-ID: <3CE95AD2.CF4684F1@mindspring.com> References: <20020520105154.E962@damon.com> <20020520191546.D349@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20020520122558.F962@damon.com> <20020520114823.D1468@blossom.cjclark.org>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > The issue is that the server is reporting a _transient_ failure. That > is, it's telling us that if we wait and try again later, we might get > a correct response. How do we know if it is a permanently broken > server or one that really is having a transient problem that will be > fixed soon? See 5.2.3 of RFC 1034. > > Funny thing is that austinenergy.com seems to have one NS that deals > with AAAA queries in an OK-way and one that doesn't. Yeah; consider if you were dealing with a human... A: [dial-dial-dial, ring-ring-ring] B: Hello? A: Hi, is Robert James there? B: I'm sorry; can you call back later? C: [dial-dial-dial, ring-ring-ring] B: Hello? C: Hi, is Bob James there? B: Sure; let me put you through [... put's C through ...] D: [dial-dial-dial, ring-ring-ring] Z: Hello? D: Hi, is Robert James there? Z: Sure; let me put you through [... put's D through ...] A: [dial-dial-dial, ring-ring-ring] B: Hello? A: Hi, is Robert James there? B: I'm sorry; can you call back later? E: [dial-dial-dial, ring-ring-ring] B: Hello? E: Hi, is Bob James there? B: Sure; let me put you through [... put's E through ...] ...ugly. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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