Sys log question.

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue May 16 01:13:52 UTC 2000


> Hi,
> 
> Could I get some help with this?
> 
> 14-May-2000 23:54:50.000 XX+/209.147.72.35/egroups.com\032/MX/IN
> 
> I think I know most of what this line is telling me but what does the part 
> "\032" mean?

	It means that the last label was "com ".  032 is the decimal value
	of space, the backslash indictes that the next character(s) is to
	be specially processed.  This is standard presentation format for a
	domain name.

	Mark
> 
> I have found a fair amount on information on debugging logs but not much on 
> the system log messages.
> 
> BTW. The reason I am looking at this is my mail server is having trouble 
> sending mail to egroups.com.  I presume that \032 indicates some kind of 
> error but I don't know where to find what it means.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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