Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - Still Can't send mail to AOL HELP!

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:37:11 -0800
> From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> you DO NOT NEED secondary DNS for anything at all as long as
> primary DNS is working.  Wait, that's not true, you need it for
> the original registration of the domain.  But that's all.  Not
> even for renewals.

If one follows the RFC, it's needed for registration.  And I wish
that it were enforced to thwart people registering domains with
arbitrary NSen.  But it's (at least with some registrars) no
problem to register domains even without DNS. :-(

> Quite doubtful.  Just about every mail-server in the world will
> accept email that's been relayed up to eight times.  REALLY.

IIRC, Sendmail's default MaxHopCount is 25.  I frequently receive
messages with 10+ relay hops in the path without incident.


Eddy

Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence
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