North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: mail does bounce (was: Customers down?)
> On Sat, 01 January 2000, "Steven J. Sobol" wrote: > > What I was referring to was a situation where the domain does exist in the > > root nameservers but the authoritative nameservers are unavailable. > > So .COM exists in the root servers? How do you decide to treat second > level domains (i.e. donelan.com) versus third level domains > (i.e. www.donelan.com) versus third level domains under country code > domains. > > > > > > I'll take a stab at this: Attempting to resolve a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i If you get back a return value from DNS that says "Authoritative answer, a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i does not exist" Bounce the mail. If you get back a return that says "Resolving a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i timed out without a return" Queue the mail. This also works for i, h.i, g.h.i, f.g.h.i, etc. Owen
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