Servfail When Resolving certain domains

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9v4vg1$1gu at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
England, Robert (Robert) <england at northamerica.exchange.agere.com> wrote:
>
>I totally agree, but I am still trying to understand why the forwarding
>works and the standard config. does not?  

The standard config doesn't work because your server trusts the NS records,
but they're wrong.

>					   Trust me I don't want to have to
>worry about zone forwarders, and the admin involved. But as a stop gap that
>was the only way to get it to work until I fully understand the problem.

Why do you feel it's your responsibility to make it work?  If it were their
mail server that were down, would anyone expect you to arrange a workaround
for that?  If they can't get their DNS right, that's their problem.  It
would be nice if you forwarded the messages in this thread to them to let
them know they're screwed up, but I don't think you should be expected to
do anything else.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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