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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:39:06 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird sporadic DNS resolution problems 
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20010118193210.038e34d8@marble.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <200101190027.f0J0RtF67341@drugs.dv.isc.org>
References:  <Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:50:59 %2B1100." <200101182350.KAA17112@lightning.itga.com.au>

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At 11:27 AM 1/19/2001 +1100, Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote:

>         But did the A record of the MX exist?  Was the zone correctly
>         delegated?  There are quite a few configuration error case
>         transient errors.

In the past, you were able to send email to LAME zones. i.e. a server which 
did not respond authoritatively. The question I have is when did this 
change, and if so, is it a tuneable. The example I gave was supercom.ca. 
Both their servers respond LAME in the classic sense.

ns4# mail -v postmasterd@supercom.ca
Subject: test ignore

EOT
postmasterd@supercom.ca... supercom.ca: Name server timeout
postmasterd@supercom.ca... Transient parse error -- message queued for 
future delivery
postmasterd@supercom.ca... queued
ns4#

 From a LINUX box
mail -v postmaster@supercom.ca
Subject: test ignore

Cc:
postmaster@supercom.ca... Connecting to mail.supercom.ca. via esmtp...

[root@devonium2 mdtancsa]# v220 mail.supercom.ca Lotus SMTP MTA Service Ready
 >>> EHLO devonium2.sentex.ca
i250-mail.supercom.ca
250-SIZE 0
250 EXPN
 >>> MAIL From:<root@devonium2.sentex.ca> SIZE=50
250 OK
 >>> RCPT To:<postmaster@supercom.ca>
250 OK
 >>> DATA
  354 Enter Mail, end by a line with only '.'
 >>> .
/250 Message received OK.
postmaster@supercom.ca... Sent (Message received OK.)
Closing connection to mail.supercom.ca.
 >>> QUIT
221 GoodBye


Same rev of sendmail, asking another earlier BIND.

         ---Mike


         ---Mike
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