[Asterisk-Users] [OT] List messages and end user outages

[Martin Joseph]

On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:36 AM, Robert Webb wrote:

>
> Sorry, this is off topic to asterisk itself, but is about the list 
> server.
>
> I had a power failure lastnight at home, where my email server 
> resides, and my network was down for about 20 minutes, that was after 
> 45 minutes of uptime on UPS. Since power was restored, around 9:45 PM 
> EST on 2/16, I have not received a single post from the users, biz, or 
> dev lists. Normally when this has happened in the past, it has taken 
> 24 hours for the list server to start sending to my email server 
> again.
>
> My question is why so long? I am on other lists and it might take an 
> hour or so for the messages to start showing up, but why 24 hours for 
> a 20 minute loss of contact with my email server?
>

Are you using dynamic DNS?  Perhaps it's a DNS update issue?