From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 20 13:22:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86F037B409; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0335.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.80] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 179tfU-0006ad-00; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:22:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE95AD2.CF4684F1@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:21:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: Damon Anton Permezel , Peter Pentchev , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures References: <20020520105154.E962@damon.com> <20020520191546.D349@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20020520122558.F962@damon.com> <20020520114823.D1468@blossom.cjclark.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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