OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:57:43AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> 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.

Well-trained adminstrators who are about to move a service from one
server to another. 

:-P

> 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.)

Correct; dig axfr shows that too.

Tom, yell at sid to go buy the ORA DNS book.

Cheers,
-- jrra
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