Re: Fwd: ezmlm warning

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> writes:

> I've been getting a lot of these transient failures lately.
>
> I consider it pretty odd that my provider (Dotster.com) would not have
> a mail exchanger or IP address in place for the MX for
> @systemhalted.org.
>
> Has anything been going on with sourceware.org that might cause this problem?

No.

> Is there any way I can track down the root cause?

I don't know.  This error means that some DNS server in the chain
responded to the request but failed to supply any information.  This
could be the nameservers for systemhalted.org (at dotster.com), or the
ones for your MX record, mx.mailix.net (at idirections.com).
Unfortunately our DNS logs cover less than 24 hours these days, and you
aren't going to get the failure notice in time for us to see anything.

Ian

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  <libc-ports-help@sourceware.org>
> Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:52 PM
> Subject: ezmlm warning
> To: carlos@systemhalted.org
>
>
> Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
> libc-ports@sourceware.org mailing list.
>
>
> Messages to you from the libc-ports mailing list seem to
> have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce
> message I received.
>
> If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces,
> I will remove your address from the libc-ports mailing list,
> without further notice.
>
>
> I've kept a list of which messages from the libc-ports mailing list have
> bounced from your address.
>
> Copies of these messages may be in the archive.
> To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request),
> send an empty message to:
>   <libc-ports-get.123_145@sourceware.org>
>
> To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages,
> send an empty message to:
>   <libc-ports-index@sourceware.org>
>
> Here are the message numbers:
>
>   2725
>   2789
>
> --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.
>
> Return-Path: <>
> Received: (qmail 4086 invoked for bounce); 25 May 2012 22:42:21 -0000
> Date: 25 May 2012 22:42:21 -0000
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@sourceware.org
> To: libc-ports-return-2725-@sourceware.org
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1337985273sourceware.org22923270"
> Subject: failure notice
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sourceware.org.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <carlos@systemhalted.org>:
> Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)