[CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

Susan Day wrote:
> With regard to Richard's comments, I will get in touch with my server 
> farm (or garden, small company) that handles the same.
>
> Regarding Simon's comments, these DNS packets have got to be teeny 
> tiny. This is plain text and very little of that. Your response was 
> full of terms I didn't understand and of course can look up and will 
> if necessary, but I think you're seeing a size that isn't merited. 
> I'll await your response before proceeding.
> TIA,
> Susan
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Hi Susan,

The records that Richard was talking about was not that of your actual 
mail, but the Domain Name Service (DNS) records required to find the 
destination server and for that server to look up your server to verify 
that the mail comes from a valid address. I recall a discussion earlier 
this month about the root DNS servers being updated to a new version of 
DNS software that would increase the size of the DNS records. This would 
then take a while to filter through the "tree" of DNS servers and 
eventually software that could not handle these larger records would fail.

I hope that this sheds some light.

ChrisG