From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] dns, cs, and smtp Message-ID: <20030402160726.I11994@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from David Presotto on Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:21:39PM -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:07:27 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 88fa95ea-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:21:39PM -0500, David Presotto wrote: > > I updated dns, cs, and smtp to better handle the situation > of some chunk of the dns tree being unreachable. Before the > changes, smtp would often return mail prematurely if we > couldn't reach part of the dns tree. Now it just leaves the > mail queued to try again later. > I've been meaning to ask for a while: the man pages are not very clear (to the extent that I have been digging) about the format of reverse DNS resolution. Perhaps an example will help? I haven't had much success with experimentation and reading the source is always a little daunting. ++L