On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Chris Geldenhuis > <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Right so far ... > > > 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. > > You're thinking of the DNSSEC changes to add security information to > the packets. That should only affect software that actually asks for > DNSSEC packets, which presumably excludes any software that isn't > prepared to handle those responses. > > I'm not familiar with the qmail bug that was previously mentioned, but > from the description it appears to be related to CNAME records, not to > DNSSEC. > > > Oops.Forgot to clean this up. The problem was that named shut down and I didn't catch it. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100525/1d55430f/attachment-0005.html>