Re: qmail-remote to earthlink.com: CNAME lookup failed temporarily

[Nasir Mahmood <nasir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,


James Craig Burley wrote:

> I've been noticing "CNAME lookup failed temporarily" errors in my
> qmail-send logs, from qmail-remote being repeatedly unable to deliver
> email to earthlink.com.
>  

I had the same CNAME  lookup failure problem with earthlink.com  and 
after applying big-dns-patch  I got 50 %  of the delivery carried out 
successfully.
Anyways I will try this  any-to-cname patch to cehck its working also.


Regards,
Nasir Mahmood.
Nologics Inc,

> Earlier this morning I tried what I call the qmail-bigdns.patch patch,
> available at:
>
>  http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch
>
> But, surprisingly, that didn't resolve the problem; I continued
> getting the same errors, after qmail-remote spent a fair amount of
> time on each delivery attempt.
>
> Just now, after further research, I tried the any-to-cname.patch at:
>
>  http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Softwares/qmail/#any-to-cname
>
> It worked like a charm, and qmail-remote takes hardly any time
> delivering to earthlink.com now (that is, successful delivery is
> taking hardly any time; previously, the failures occurred after what
> seemed like several minutes).
>
> Based on the writeup on that web page, and my own experiences, I think
> it's safe for me to recommend that second patch for inclusion in most
> anyone's qmail setup, and the netqmail people might want to consider
> putting it into netqmail-1.06 as well.
>
>