Sys log question.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <01BFBE1B.0C7BD620.gwardell at Yeshua.cc>,
Gary Wardell  <gwardell at Yeshua.cc> wrote:
>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's an actual character that was in the query.  \032 is the octal code for
Control-Z.

>I have found a fair amount on information on debugging logs but not much on 
>the system log messages.

The DNS & BIND book explains how to read query logs.

>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.

Something in your mail software is appending a garbage character to the
domain name.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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