Re: [Sheflug] Not working?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stevenson <richards [at] adv.net.nz> writes:

    Richard> <cough> I might take exception to that...  what problems
    Richard> have you noticed?

We had a DNS misconfiguration here a few months ago, and not only did
my entry get deleted, but the !"#$% DNS admin had restarted the serial
numbers.  That was our fault.

By directly querying the publically accessible nameservers, I managed
to convince all of them to ask our server for my address, and my mail
started to go through again.  A couple of days later, all the VUW
nameservers had somehow managed to reacquire the bogus information
from somewhere, and I couldn't post again.

You tell me if that's "robust" behavior.  I am aware that it may be
conformant to the RFCs, but VUW was the only place I had that problem
with.  I did have some name servers that refused to give up on the
cached info, but none that returned to the bogus info after once being
shown the light.


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