On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:11:26 +0200 Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> said:

A couple of problems with some pretty important nameservers has been brought to my attention in the last couple of weeks. I would not normally bring this issue directly to such a wide group of people, but I believe that this matter is sufficiently serious to warrant such an approach.

Sorry, I meant to mention that we had previously brought up these issues with Marc Roger at Belnet, and so far as I am able to determine, he simply didn't seem to care. I believe that these issues have also been brought up with the management of DNS.BE, and again we haven't seen any results. Likewise, I believe that the administrators of EUnet are well aware of their DNS problems -- they are certainly aware of the problems of getting e-mail from any of their servers to many of ours, since our more recently configured and install machines refuse to accept mail from hosts that do not have proper reverse DNS, in accordance with Internet standard practice going back at least two years. Again, we have yet to see any results. If I have not followed the proper escalation procedure, I would appreciate it if you would please let me know what the proper escalation procedure is. I would also ask that you tell me where this escalation procedure is documented, because I'm certainly not aware of anything of this sort. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium