xemacs.org DNS and MX status

[Adrian Aichner]

Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> writes:

> On 23 okt 2007, at 00.36, Adrian Aichner wrote:
>
>> Martin, if not, how should keep the configuration at gwyn.tux.org and
>> dotsrc.org and yxa.extundo.com, and possibly puck.nether.net[1] in
>> sync?
>
> Typically DNS zone transfers is used for this.  Set up one of the
> machine as the master, and point the other machines at the master.

Thanks Simon, I'll look into this.

>
>> Simon has wanted to get extundo.com out of the xemacs.org MX bakup
>> role for a long time and we should do this now.
>>
>> Also, currently yxa.extundo.com is incurring varying, sometimes
>> substantial delay in xemacs.org mail delivery (according to
>> "Received:" headers).
>
> Out of curiosity, do you have an example?  I know yxa is rather
> loaded, and deals with a lot of spam, but it should not lead to any
> significant delays as far as I understand.

Here is one:

Received: from yxa.extundo.com (yxa.extundo.com [83.241.177.38])
	by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l9K02VxL015072
	for <adrian at xemacs.org>; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:02:44 -0400
Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14])
	by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l9J704Ga012003;
	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:00:04 +0200
Received: from TANG (port-212-202-78-14.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.78.14])
	by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61ADC75D5;
	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:59:32 +0200 (CEST)
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From: "Adrian Aichner" <adrian at xemacs.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:59:55 +0200
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Others are not as drastic.


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> Oh, btw, I remember that some time ago I guessed that the primary MX
> for xemacs.org uses grey-listening, and that yxa.extundo.com hasn't
> been white-listed, so that may explain why delivery is taking so long.

Ah, that's a good possibility.

administrators at calypso.tux.org, can you please look into this possible
grey-listening issue?

Thanks in advance!

Adrian

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