[NSRCA-discussion] Quiet today

[Thomas D. Simes]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:44:20 -0600
"William C. Harden" <flyinbill1 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Unbelievably quiet today.  Whats up?
> 
>  
> 
> Bill

Mea Culpa <sigh>

I was thinking the same thing so I had a look at the list server and it
turns out I had made a configuration mistake in tightening up the
security on my DNS configuration.  The mailing list server uses several
DNS checks on inbound messages to help cut down the spam traffic and I
had neglected to allow recursive DNS queries from the list server.  As a
result the list server was returning a temporary error for incoming
messages for a while.  No messages should have been lost because of the
nature of the temporary (400 series) error, instead the servers trying
to hand off messages should have queued them for retry and they should
be filtering in.

Sorry about that - hopefully folks used the lack of distraction to make
some balsa dust or Monokote scraps fly :)

-- 
Tom
 
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Thomas D. Simes                                 simestd at netexpress.com 
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