DNS transaction timeout errors
Technical Support, Stalker Labs
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001, 06:17:14 GMT
Trevor G. Hammonds, <tre...@skyhost.net> wrote:
>Over the past few days, I have been getting a lot of log entries like the
>following:
>
>09:37:34.01 1 SMTPI-00240(mail.stalker.com) Return-Path
>'CGatePr...@mail.stalker.com' rejected: DNS transaction timeout
>
>10:24:04.01 1 SMTPI-00280(zzzz.org) Return-Path 'xx...@yyyy.zzzz.ORG'
>rejected: DNS transaction timeout
>10:24:23.01 1 SMTPI-00279(smtp.aaaa.com) Return-Path 'cc...@bbbb.aaaa.com'
>rejected: DNS transaction timeout
>
>I am uncertain of the cause, but I believe this is referring to incoming
>messages only.
Yes.
>Could this be from the RBL DNS lookup procedure?
No. There was some problem accessing the DNS servers to resolve those yyyy.zzzz.ORG domain names.
>Are all
>these messages (mostly legitimate/non-spam) really being rejected?
I believe they were rejected with the 4xx code, so senders will retry the delivery later.
Best regards,
Dmitry Akindinov
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Technical Support, Stalker Labs
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001, 23:48:13 GMT
Trevor G. Hammonds, <tre...@skyhost.net> wrote:
>The server that runs CGP is also running DNS. Would you surmise that the
>DNS process is hanging? I've never had this error before.
Not necessary. Your DNS server might be busys recursing the request down to the proper server. For some reasone it took too long.
>Trevor Hammonds