Marek Gutkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There is a mail in my queue, trying to get out to hotmail.com. This is what
> I find in my logs, every time qmail tries:
>
> @400000003b4478201cef303c starting delivery 3170: msg 277314 to remote
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @400000003b44783418edd024 delivery 3170: deferral:
> CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/
Perfectly normal behaviour, if Hotmail's DNS is broken, or your resolver is
broken.
> Snort log:
>
> sensei snort: IDS212 - MISC - DNS Zone Transfer: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3211 ->
> yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:53
[...]
> Why does qmail try to download the zone file for hotmail.com from my DNS
> server?
It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other
things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. Please do not
followup with any further snort discussion; it's offtopic for this list.
Charles
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