On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 06:00:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> IME, things work just well enough that it takes awhile to realize that
> they aren't entirely okay. It took me a few months after upgrading to
> RHEL8 to make the connection between occasional (maybe one-in-a-thousand)
> mail failures and not having bind set up with "-4". I don't know whether
> the previous setup avoided that because older bind defaulted differently
> or because there was some change in kernel configuration.
Agreed. The failures were very rare, but you know me, I had to dig into
it to find the cause. ;-) I would see occasional Firefox page load
failures, but once my cron job occasionally failed, I now had a way to
find the root cause.
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