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Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
From: Larry Smith <lesmith () ecsis net>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:36:39 -0500
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 09:23, william(at)elan.net wrote:
Which indeed means they have no MX servers listed and that MAY be a problem for some mail servers (though normally mail servers are supposed to send email based on A record then). Obviously not having MX record is not considered to be good email service setup in this century and it also means if they receive too many messages and their mail server can not handle all the connections, the mail will bounce (since there is no secondary mail server to go to).
Actually it is worse than that. fema.gov has an IP (205.128.1.44) which does not respond for mail so most MTA will try the IP first, meaning that most mail will fail even is ns.fema.gov or ns2.fema.gov do answer for mail. -- Larry Smith SysAd ECSIS.NET sysad () ecsis net
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- Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response? Mike Tancsa (Sep 13)
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- Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response? Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 13)
- Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response? Joseph S D Yao (Sep 13)
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