Re: List sluggishness, and occasional deletion of people from the
Tom Dyas (tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 4 Jun 96 22:52:01 EDT
> One other note.
>
> Many, many many people with *.com domains have their dns
> terribly misconfigured.
>
> I have to set up explicit routes for people to get
> mail to them on work.nether.net at times, as their domains as so
> badly broken.
>
> I will be contacting the internic about these "Lame" domains
> very soon, and having them suspend domains where there are no dns
> servers answering for the domain, which cause delays in relaying
> others mail.
>
> Also at the time where these date stamps mention, work.nether.net
> was not relaying the mail. Another site was if i recall correctly.
dogbert.rutgers.edu was being used as a temporary .com exploder at
that time. Poor dogbert ran out of /var space among other things while
handling the mail. Blame it all on that ultra-secure, super-fast
sendmail program. (sic) :)
Tom
Tom Dyas tdyas@noc.rutgers.edu
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