Name server placement

[James Raftery]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:19:45PM -0500, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> If their network
> and/or power are down, and I try to send them e-mail, the mail server
> will tell me that the mail address is invalid, since there is no host
> by that name.

``no host by that name''? Unreacheable DNS servers is a soft-error. It
is not NXDOMAIN. If your MTA interprets them as the same your MTA is 
broken.

jm
-- 
James Raftery (JBR54)
  "It's somewhere in the Red Hat district"  --  A network engineer's
   freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.

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