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- From: nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: RE: GALLIFREY.BU.EDU not accepting mail.
- Message-ID: <9208272344.AA01360@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 00:40:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- In <p3svp40@sgi.sgi.com> roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts) writes:
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- > Host GALLIFREY.BU.EDU has not been accepting mail for weeks. At present, I
- > have over 100 mail messages bound for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU queued on my internet
- > forwarder. The only MX record for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU points to that host
- > itself. I cannot ping or otherwise contact GALLIFREY.BU.EDU. If
- > GALLIFREY.BU.EDU is going to be down for extended periods of time, it would
- > be good if an alternate, MX record were provided. If that host has gone away
- > altogether, the A and MX records for it should be removed from the DNS ASAP.
- >
- > - Robert Stephens Silicon Graphics Inc.
-
- Well, yes, you're probably right. But wouldn't it be more effective to
- discuss it with someone at BU, rather than griping about it in public?
-
- Of course, you may have tried, but you don't mention it.
-
- Ric
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