Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Mark S. Guz wrote:
>
> > the dns resolver will return a fail code if the lookup fails will it
> > not? If so could exim not then put this in its logs?
> > so that we can see which server is failing??
>
> The returns are:
>
> DNS_SUCCEED successful lookup (i.e. the address is blocked)
> DNS_NOMATCH name not found, or no data found for the given type
> DNS_AGAIN soft failure, try again later
> DNS_FAIL DNS failure
>
> Clearly I could make it log the last two it you want. But do you want
> your logs filling up with warning messages when some part of the
> Internet goes offline for a while?
>
Given that exim becomes unusable when it can't reach one of the servers
in its rbl domain list
I do think that a failure message would help diagnose problems quickly.
> Noted for Exim 4.
Cool
>
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