-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:02:01 +1100, Nix wrote:

Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone else gets these messages occasionally??

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Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the suse-security@suse.com mailing list.

Messages to you from the suse-security mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I received.

I get one of these every few weeks. The error message usually indicates that it couldn't resolve my domain name. I suspect that the mailing list program occasionally times out while waiting for a name to be resolved, and treats "no response from name server" the same as "name server couldn't find the name", since other mail is reaching me without problems. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOj006DMYPge5L34aEQJFXACgr+3dIeA6at70QT9x8AJ+q23eYAUAn1Ww zRBd75QKZXZFkSS3uLoo828E =i7Do -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- eldredge@poboxes.com PGP key available from: http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?eldredge/ "There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace." - Woodrow Wilson

I also get those once in a while but then I attributed it to maybe a few samll dns erros like not being able to resolv my domain name and the like. At first I thought I had this alone looks like it is common could it be something that could be fixed by tinkering with the mailing list software a bit or the qmail program? On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Nix wrote:

Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone else gets these messages occasionally?? Now, this email address/domain is hosted at hispeed.com who are a pretty large hosting company. When I first got one of these messages, I raised a help desk ticket with them, but they could find anything wrong. Likewise the second time. This is now the 4th time I have received this message in as many months from the SuSE mailing list. Does anyone have any clue what is going on? I receive over a hundred messages a day to different accounts on this server (BugTraq, NTBugtraq, FW-1, HWG, 2600, Linux-aus, etc etc..) and the only one that seems to have any problems is SuSE....

I would really like to get to the bottom of this...

-Nix

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Mailing-List: contact suse-security-help@suse.com; run by ezmlm Date: 15 Dec 2000 17:36:33 -0000 From: suse-security-help@ns2.SuSE.com To: suse@nix.hispeed.com Subject: ezmlm warning

Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the suse-security@suse.com mailing list.

Messages to you from the suse-security 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 suse-security mailing list, without further notice.

I've kept a list of which messages from the suse-security 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:

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Here are the message numbers:

4286 4287 4284 4285

--- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.

Return-Path: <> Received: (qmail 32510 invoked for bounce); 3 Dec 2000 22:34:51 -0000 Date: 3 Dec 2000 22:34:51 -0000 From: MAILER-DAEMON@lists.suse.com To: suse-security-return-4286-@lists.suse.com Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at lists.suse.com. 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.

: 209.145.61.245 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown Giving up on 209.145.61.245.

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