OT?: Emailing from within filepro

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Kenneth Brody achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> > Recursive queries supported by this server
> >  Query for aldridgeinc.com type=255 class=1
> >   aldridgeinc.com MX (Mail Exchanger) Priority: 1 gate.aldridgeinc.com
> >   aldridgeinc.com SOA (Zone of Authority)
> >         Primary NS: gate.aldridgeinc.com
> >         Responsible person: sid at aldridgeinc@com
> >         serial:200381703
> >         refresh:20s 
> >         retry:20s 
> >         expire:20s 
> >         minimum-ttl:20s 

Dear God in heaven.  WHO on earth sets those times to 20s?!  I had to
reread that five times to make sure I actually saw that right, and I
-still- couldn't believe my eyes.  Unfortunately, I just looked up the SOA
myself and it's actually -true-.  Good gravy.

Someone needs a serious lesson in administering DNS, and the rationales
for setting -reasonable- times for a zone.  Not only the times are unruly,
but the 'mail addr' field (shown in Ken's post as "Responsible person"
is entirely mis-entered as "sid\@aldridgeinc.com".  It -should- read
"sid.aldridgeinc.com".  (It shows up funny on whatever you used, Ken, but
standard nslookup shows the true gravity of the error.)

Someone really needs to read the docs before writing another line of DNS
configuration.

Unbelievable.  Thanks for a good laugh, Ken!

mark->
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