On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One of our > > netblocks appears to be filtered somewhere inside their network, > > preventing DNS lookups from completing, thus preventing e-mail from > > being delivered. > > Am I reading this correctly? You are saying that you > have engineered a single point of failure in your network > and now you are suffering as a result?
>From how I read it, the original poster did not have a network failure, but rather is being afflicted by deliberate packet filtering. That is *not* a SPOF effect. Sure, multiple diverse nameservers are preferable, but even that will never prevent blanket blocking from causing filures at some remote site. -- -- Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>