Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: "I am not receiving anything from VGER lists ?" | | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:06:52 +0300 (EEST) | | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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> From: Hans-Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap-ag.de> .... > Christoph
> P.S: Am I the only one getting no more mails from linux-kernel or is > there a general problem with the list?
You are on the list, which does not mean the email-feed to you does not have problems -- as a matter of fact, UK and DE were being redistributed thru a host at Oxford, UK, but that one apparently hung up two days ago. Now the backlog has been routed to a couple of FUNET.FI machines.
For the general info: We postmasters associated with these lists are rather trigger-happy. If your email bounces for ANY reason outside our sphere of direct influence, you are very likely to be removed from the lists.
This should not surprise, as there are 17000 different recipient addresses at VGER's 70 lists. (11000 different domains.) We don't, unfortunately, have the luxury of free time to be spent on rectifying people's email problems.
As of late a lot of people have problems where they have MX setup of type: customer.domain. IN MX 10 mail.customer.domain. IN MX 20 mail.isp.comain. and either, or both of the servers are mis-configured not to accept addresses of type: <user@customer.domain>
In case of "mail.customer.domain" server it is a definite misconfiguration, but in case of "mail.isp.domain" it may well be a lack of communication.
Due to Internet growing from well-behaving academic research community into ubiquitous, and rather unruly network, also network resource abuse has arisen to be a real problem.
That has forced most systems to reject any third-party destined email. Because most common mechanisms used for this are rather clumsy, and require explicitely listing all domains for which the relaying is accepted, a lot of people become rejected the instant their own "mail.customer.domain" server does not work, and email becomes diverted to "mail.isp.domain" server.
This lack of "customer.domain" acceptance at "mail.isp.domain" is clear example of lack of communication. Owner of the "customer.domain" has failed to negotiate with owner(s) of "mail.customer.domain" to allow relaying to "customer.domain" thru "mail.customer.domain" server.
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi> <mea@nic.funet.fi> <mea@vger.rutgers.edu>
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