On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:45:36PM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Matti Aarnio writes:
> > We have been dropping people because they use now dead ORBZ:
> >
> > Rejected - see http://orbz.org/
> >
> > The problem with these DNS-RBL things is that they are subject to
> > all kinds of external pressures, and apparently ORBZ has followed
> > ORBS in this manner.
>
> Interesting. When I try to lookup hosts using orbz.org, I just get
> Non-existent host/domain results (thus mail shouldn't bounce). Why are
> some people bouncing email?
I see both DNS lookup timeouts, and SERVFAIL returns.
In my books neither should lead to rejection, but
a) others may have better wisdom that I have,
b) some popular software are known to be unable to
separate any sort of temporary failures (timeouts
at DNS lookup) from real things (actual DNS-RBL)
> Regards,
> Richard....
> Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
> Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
/Matti Aarnio
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