Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:50:28 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>, <Mark.Andrews@nominum.com> Cc: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Weird sporadic DNS resolution problems Message-ID: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKEECBNCAA.davids@webmaster.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010118190909.0387fa10@marble.sentex.net>
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> At 10:29 AM 1/19/2001 +1100, Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote: > Yes and no. Yes, its a human problem... My problem in that our support > staff get hit with "Why cant I email my <insert anyone from Aunt Mable to > large global conglomerate who could not possibly have bad DNS > entries> when > <insert customer at competitors> can."... So yeah, its my problem. It > would be lovely in a perfect world if people cleaned up their DNS. But > some people dont know how, some people have made honest mistakes. Either > way, its pretty well a pointless exercise try to explain to the end user > what a LAME delegation is. The simple response is that there's no way to determine definitively where the mail is supposed to go. 'supercom.ca' is a great example. There is no way to determine where mail to that domain is supposed to go, and it's much better that it not work than simply guess. Let me put this question another way: How can you tell the difference between a 'permanently' misconfigured site and one with a transient error? Do you want mail to be sent to the wrong place because of transient errors? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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