Re: address@hidden: [Savannah-hackers] Problem with mailling list]

[Loic Dachary]

Joel N. Weber II writes:
 > So I think I just realized what the problem is with
 > mail.freesoftware.fsf.org has been:
 > 
 > mail.freesoftware.fsf.org has been a CNAME record pointing at
 > mail.gnu.org.  The semantics of CNAME with mail allow mailers to
 > canonicalize according to the CNAME record, so a CNAME record of
 > mail.freesoftware.fsf.org will get translated by mailers to whatever
 > it points to.
 > 
 > Why this is handled inconsistently I don't claim to understand,
 > though.
 > 
 > So I just made mail.freesoftware.fsf.org be an A record pointing at
 > the same IP that mail.gnu.org does, and a pair of MX records pointing
 > at fencepost and delysid; wait an hour or two to allow for DNS
 > propogation, and let me know if this fixes it.

        This is *good* news. I just did a test and it's now working fine.

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