On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:14:37 PDT, Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com> said:
Not yet. But the common thread to this is that every domain that vanishes (and causes email to bounce) has got a bogus MNAME entry (i.e. MNAME is unroutable). This isn't a root specific problem as legacy root users have reported this problem alongside ORSC users. The bogus MNAME may be a red herring, but it's what we're looking at as a possible common cause.
Hmm... Bork-ware box boots, gets a DHCP address, tries to stick it into the AD tree at the MNAME address, and loses. It then tries to send mail, and the remote end bounces it because it doesn't have a valid PTR entry? Yes, a DHCP'ed mail server is silly, and rejecting mail entirely because of a missing PTR is silly - but this is a world where sites reject mail that has a 'MAIL FROM:<>' and then wonder why things dont work.... Just 2AM speculation, but I've seen stupider failure modes.. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech