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List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: "CNAME lookup failed temporarily"  Yet Again!
From:       Dave Sill <de5 () sws5 ! ornl ! gov>
Date:       2003-09-29 19:45:40
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alan@patriot.net wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote:
>> > I have friends who use _earthlink_.  It sometimes takes 24 hours for
>> > messages to them to go out.  I wake up qmail-send often dozens of times,
>> > and get back the famous:  "deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily"
>> > almost immediately.  Eventually the messages do go out . . .
>> 
>> Check this out on qmail.org:
>> 
>> "Christopher K. Davis has a patch to accept oversize DNS packets
>> which works on both qmail's dns.c and tcpserver's dns.c"
>
>	I went to qmail.org, found the item about "oversize DNS packets",
>	and went to Mr Davis' site, www.ckdmr.com(IIRC) but found no
>	patch there.
>
>I have read somewhere in my explorations that "oversize DNS packets" has
>something to do with this problem.  Can you, or someone, explain what? or
>point me at some documentation?

See http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#dns-patches.

-Dave
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