[LUAU] RR SMTP should resolve with OpenDNS

[Julian Yap]

Yeah, all the outbound hawaii.rr.com mail flows through 4 mainland servers

I use Google Public DNS at home: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

The Hawaii.rr.com DNS servers are really bad and don't honor TTL's.  They just have very long caching and it varies depending on the DNS server you hit.

- Julian

--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net> wrote:

From: Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net>
Subject: [LUAU] RR SMTP should resolve with OpenDNS
To: "LUAU" <luau at lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org>
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 10:21 PM

That doesn't seem right...  I am using the OpenDNS servers (just double-checked resolv.conf to make sure), and I get:
PING smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com (71.74.56.22) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (71.74.56.22): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=128 ms

I'm using RR in the McCully area, but for a non-RR host, that shouldn't matter...

Oddly, the traceroute for what should be a Hawaii-based server dies after going through RR's Cali tbone.

Aloha,
-Jeff