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Jay West wrote:

Greetings; 1) Reverse DNS has suddenly stopped working for our netblocks. It appears this happened a bit ago but really started manifesting itself recently because the old cached up queries have started to expire. In general terms this usually isn't THAT big of a deal, but some mail servers these days won't handle mail from a system that fails a reverse lookup. The problem isn't with us, it is two hops above us that they have their in-addr.arpa delegation down to us broken. I'm trying to get them to fix this as soon as possible. 2) We are in the process of reloading our entire set of servers from scratch that comprise our internet service. This means upgrading EVERYTHING including all layered software products. This will take some time as it will mean fresh installs of 30 some odd FreeBSD machines. Most all the servers have failover systems, but this list runs on a single machine. While we will do our very best to prevent any interruptions to classiccmp list traffic, it is probable that during the upgrade classiccmp service may be intermittent. We expect to do the machine handling this list around the middle or end of this coming week. This will certainly get us up to the latest version of majordomo, which I believe has some speed enhancements for delivery of large lists of outbound messages. We will also be updating the software that pulls all the classiccmp posts into the archive at www.classiccmp.org and I think the new version has a search function built in. Thanks for your patience & understanding as we improve our infrastructure. Regards, Jay West