Today's ezmlm warning

[Mike Easter]

This is just the bounces, the problem with the delays is much worse than
the problem with the bounces.  I wish ezmlm wouldn't try to use CNAME,
that is an 'unnatural act'.

snipped from ezmlm message entirety pasted below:
> <munged at earthlink.net>:
> CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)
> I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
> long.

munged = michael.easter

Is that dot a problem?


snipped from DNSstuff - 2 'Time to look up' results, CNAME & MX:

Time to look up earthlink.net CNAME record
Generated by www.DNSstuff.com at 22:25:26 GMT on 03 Apr 2004.
   Searching for CNAME record for earthlink.net at g.root-servers.net:
Got referral to J.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [took 124 ms]
   Searching for CNAME record for earthlink.net at J.GTLD-SERVERS.net.:
Got referral to itchy.earthlink.net. [took 131 ms]
   Searching for CNAME record for earthlink.net at itchy.earthlink.net.:
Reports no CNAME records (NODATA type 2). 222ms.

Answer: Does not exist.
Sorry, I could not continue.


Time to look up earthlink.net MX record
Generated by www.DNSstuff.com at 22:31:46 GMT on 03 Apr 2004.
   Searching for MX record for earthlink.net at m.root-servers.net:  Got
referral to M.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [took 197 ms]
   Searching for MX record for earthlink.net at M.GTLD-SERVERS.net.:
Got referral to scratchy.earthlink.net. [took 300 ms]
   Searching for MX record for earthlink.net at scratchy.earthlink.net.:
Reports an answer.

Record is:
<snip very very long record of 14 MXes and the quick nameserver
responses may be seen at
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstime.ch?name=earthlink.net&type=MX >

Average of all 2 nameservers: 54ms (plus 497ms overhead).
Score: A+



---- Original Message ----
From: <kplug-list-help at kernel-panic.org>
To: <munged at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: ezmlm warning

> Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
> kplug-list at kernel-panic.org mailing list.
>
> I'm working for my owner, who can be reached
> at kplug-list-owner at kernel-panic.org.
>
>
> Messages to you from the kplug-list mailing list seem to
> have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce
> message I received.
>
> If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe
> bounces, I will remove your address from the kplug-list mailing list,
> without further notice.
>
>
> I've kept a list of which messages from the kplug-list mailing list
> have bounced from your address.
>
> Copies of these messages may be in the archive.
> To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request),
> send an empty message to:
>    <kplug-list-get.123_145 at kernel-panic.org>
>
> To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages,
> send an empty message to:
>    <kplug-list-index at kernel-panic.org>
>
> Here are the message numbers:
>
>    69178
>    69302
>    69359
>    69458
>    69543
>
> --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.
>
> Return-Path: <>
> Received: (qmail 9410 invoked for bounce); 23 Mar 2004 01:33:44 -0000
> Date: 23 Mar 2004 01:33:44 -0000
> From: MAILER-DAEMON at sparkplug.kernel-panic.org
> To: kplug-list-return-69178- at kernel-panic.org
> Subject: failure notice
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sparkplug.kernel-panic.org.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't
> work out.
>
> <munged at earthlink.net>:
> CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)
> I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
> long.

-- 
Mike Easter