Re: Turn off the bubble machine.

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Sun Mar 02 2014 - 15:38:54 EST


On Sunday 02 March 2014, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Something is stuck in a loop someplace and I am now being bombarded by
>> reject messages from:
>>
>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.wdtv.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.
>>
>> <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)
>> I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
>> long.
>>
>> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>>
>> Return-Path: <gheskett@xxxxxxxx>
>> Received: (qmail 13855 invoked by uid 509); 23 Feb 2014 09:12:26 -0500
>> Received: from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (gheskett@xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) by
>> mail.wdtv.com (envelope-from <gheskett@xxxxxxxx>, uid 508) with qmail-
>> scanner-2.01
>>
>> (clamdscan: 0.88.7/2478. spamassassin: 3.1.7.
>> Clear:RC:0(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx):SA:0(1.6/5.0):.
>> Processed in 0.58892 secs); 23 Feb 2014 14:12:26 -0000
>>
>> X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0
>> X-Spam-Level: +
>> Received: from unknown (HELO coyote.localnet)
>> (gheskett@xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
>>
>> by mail.wdtv.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2014 09:12:26 -0500
>>
>> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx>
>> To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: It BOOTS! 3.13.5 that is.
>> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:12:18 -0500
>> Cc: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>
>> "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> References: <201402222022.20370.gheskett@xxxxxxxx>
>> <1393135859.30960.8.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> <201402230803.31091.gheskett@xxxxxxxx>
>> In-Reply-To: <201402230803.31091.gheskett@xxxxxxxx>
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: Text/Plain;
>>
>> charset="windows-1256"
>>
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> Message-Id: <201402230912.19049.gheskett@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I am getting about 2 or 3 of these a day. Since about 24 hours after
>> this original posting. So Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, please
>> do whatever it takes to stop this.
>
>Sounds like an issue on your end, TBH (or rather, mail.wdtv.com).
>alum.mit.edu is not a CNAME and has its own MX records (which in turn
>point to A records). I'm not aware of anyone else with this problem
>(or at least they haven't told me about it). In any case, I have no
>control over alum.mit.edu. If you earnestly believe that it's
>something wrong on the MIT end (and I'm _fairly_ sure it's not, based
>on the message you sent), you can try contacting noc@xxxxxxxx
>
>Cheers,
>
> -ilia

Thanks for responding so quickly Ilia.

It seems to me that if you are on this list, you or mit.edu should expect
to get Cc's and such, effectively private emails from other members of the
list. But for qmail to repeatedly send me "I give up bounces" is something
I have not encountered in all the time we've had this server setup, dating
from 1999.

Where its at I have no clue, so I am making a little noise in hopes there
might be a clue in the responses. So this is also being sent to
noc@xxxxxxxx And I am wondering if that will bounce. :)

Cheers, Gene
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