Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:819 comp.mail.misc:5719 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dg.se!robert From: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Help with bind & smail3.1 when not on Internet Keywords: smail, DNS, bind Message-ID: <1991Jun14.061135.1307@dg.se> Date: 14 Jun 91 06:11:35 GMT References: Sender: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson) Reply-To: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: Data General AB, Kista, Sweden Lines: 19 In article , andy@xwkg.Icom.Com (Andrew H. Marrinson) writes: |> The problem is that smail treats server failure as a temporary |> condition, and deals with it by deferring mail transmission until some |> future time, whereas if the response is name error, smail tries |> another way of determining what address to send to, for example, UUCP. Have you tried to disable the defer_no_connect flag to the bind driver in the routers file? I don't know about smail 3.1.19, but it sure exists in 3.1.21. -- Robert Claeson Just because I am writing this doesn't mean that my employer agrees with me.