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Re: Customers down?


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:37:34 +0100 (MET)


On 1 Jan 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

Putting your only name servers on the same subnet (unless Tech Data
has VERY small subnets) isn't very smart no matter what day it is.  
Too many things can take down your one network.  Instead of queueing
mail, many mail programs will generate permanent errors and immediate
bounces.

What programs are that? I was under the illusion that everybody mimicked
sendmails behaviour in that if you cannot get an authoritative answer,
queue it whatever everything else (basically).

But then again, why should they work properly? :/

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se
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