List Maintenance

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Sun Oct 21 13:06:29 2001

>Jay West wrote:

> Greetings;
> 1) Reverse DNS has suddenly stopped working for our netblocks. It appears
> this happened a bit ago but really started manifesting itself recently
> because the old cached up queries have started to expire. In general terms
> this usually isn't THAT big of a deal, but some mail servers these days
> won't handle mail from a system that fails a reverse lookup. The problem
> isn't with us, it is two hops above us that they have their in-addr.arpa
> delegation down to us broken. I'm trying to get them to fix this as soon as
> possible.
> 2) We are in the process of reloading our entire set of servers from scratch
> that comprise our internet service. This means upgrading EVERYTHING
> including all layered software products. This will take some time as it will
> mean fresh installs of 30 some odd FreeBSD machines. Most all the servers
> have failover systems, but this list runs on a single machine. While we will
> do our very best to prevent any interruptions to classiccmp list traffic, it
> is probable that during the upgrade classiccmp service may be intermittent.
> We expect to do the machine handling this list around the middle or end of
> this coming week. This will certainly get us up to the latest version of
> majordomo, which I believe has some speed enhancements for delivery of large
> lists of outbound messages. We will also be updating the software that
> pulls all the classiccmp posts into the archive at www.classiccmp.org and I
> think the new version has a search function built in.
> Thanks for your patience & understanding as we improve our infrastructure.
> Regards,
> Jay West

Jerome Fine replies:

Thank you Jay for the continued service!!
Received on Sun Oct 21 2001 - 13:06:29 BST