Re: 43-hour ack-message delay?

[Jim Meyering]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Just a heads up that while I filed four bugs Saturday evening, it took
>> 43 hours for the ack email messages (one below) to reach me.
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I believe you can log into debbugs.gnu.org. In cases like this, feel
> free to poke around the exim logs and see if anything jumps out. That's
> all that I do! :)

Good to know that I have access, in case it happens again.

> I believe the original cause was:
>
> 2012-04-28 17:59:52 [5625] 1SOFfS-0001Si-3L == address@hidden
> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail
> server after RCPT TO:<address@hidden>: host mx.meyering.net
> [88.168.87.75]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your
> hostname, [140.186.70.43]
>
> So perhaps there was a DNS glitch somewhere.

Odd.
Thanks for investigating.

I checked logs locally and see that about a dozen messages
were rejected like that, from
Apr 28 23:58:40 through
Apr 29 05:55:15