Well I say one thing here: it would be nice if AOL's TTL for the zone
was a bit higher. An hour seems a bit low and not net-friendly since
there are so many MX lookups, etc, for aol.com. Am I being
unreasonable or just highly pedantic? :) I have a mind to gather some
stats..
Aaron
Quoting Keith Burdis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Yes, smtproutes goes in the control directory (man qmail-control). Basically,
> as I understand it, if you list a host or domain in smtproutes qmail will not
> do a DNS lookup to find out where to deliver the mail, it will use the host
> that you specify instead.
>
> So, to get around the fact that AOL returns large DNS packets when qmail does
> an MX lookup, the suggestion was to hardcode one of AOL's mail servers as the
> destination for all aol mail and thereby avoid doing the DNS lookups.
