[TheForge] why theforge e-mail list may be working for some people.

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

some people have e-mailed me saying that they have no problem e-mail
qth.net. the reason for that is that their isp's domain name servers
(dns) have a longer time-to-live (ttl) than other isps' domain name
servers. eventually, the qth.net and qsl.net dns entries will age and be
discarded.

there is also an outside chance that their isp has mailman.qth.net in
their host tables. this is highly unlikely but still a possibility.

the bottomline is that the internet as a whole querying the root name
servers cannot find qth.net nor qsl.net. unless you know the ip address
for a host machine on those networks you will not be able to connect to
either qth.net or qsl.net.

-- 
terry l. ridder ><>