Re: [9fans] dns failure in smtp

2008-08-24 Thread Dave Eckhardt
> I think mx record is required in official dns server, > although I feel the condition is too strict. Keep in mind that a DNS *failure* is not the same thing as a particular DNS record not existing. If you ask whether there is an MX record for foo, and get a timeout, you can't assume there is n

Re: [9fans] dns failure in smtp

2008-08-24 Thread erik quanstrom
assuming that my mxdial.c is up-to-date (sources is failing in a wierd way), that's not the full story. mxdial calls callmx. callmx has this code static int callmx(DS *ds, char *dest, char *domain) { int fd, i, nmx; char addr[Maxstring]; /* get a list of mx entries */

[9fans] dns failure in smtp

2008-08-24 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Sorry for noise. Someone in this list send me a mail but I cannot reply to the mail because of dns failure in smtp. This is a private message to him. ar% pwd /sys/log ar% tail smtp.fail ar Aug 24 08:30:13 dns: dns failure (net!sounine.nanosouffle.net) ar Aug 24 09:40:13 dns: dns failure (net!