One symptom is that FOAM can't send mail; when it tries, it gets an error like this:
[22:19:36] jbs@foam:/home/jbs
+$ cat /opt/foam/log/tasks/send-email-1355455200.031261.log
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Version: 0.8.2
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JOB: 2c0f3ee6-07a4-483c-9b38-0157effd5004
{u'template_data': {u'status': u'Approved', u'sliver_urn': u'urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+slice+jbs15:5e1b4bcb-b6d6-4a75-b03f-11168ca8aa04', u'creation': u'2012-12-14 03:08:25.624948+00:00', u'pend_reason': None, u'expiration': u'2013-02-15 23:00:00+00:00', u'deleted': u'False', u'user': u'urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+user+jbs', u'slice_urn': u'urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+slice+jbs15', u'enabled': True, u'site': u'foam.instageni.gpolab.bbn.com', u'email': u'jbs@pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com', u'flowvisor_slice': u'5e1b4bcb-b6d6-4a75-b03f-11168ca8aa04', u'desc': u'JBS 15 OpenFlow resources at BBN InstaGENI.', u'admin_email': u'instageni-foam-admin@gpolab.bbn.com', u'ref': None, u'id': 2, u'uuid': u'5e1b4bcb-b6d6-4a75-b03f-11168ca8aa04'}, '__jobid': '2c0f3ee6-07a4-483c-9b38-0157effd5004', u'email_info': {u'reply-to': u'', u'from': u'InstaGENI FOAM at BBN <instageni-foam-admin@gpolab.bbn.com>"', u'smtp_server': u'ops.instageni.gpolab.bbn.com'}, u'rcpt_list': u'jbs@pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com', u'event': u'email.event.gapi-deletesliver.exp'}
[('Subject', 'FOAM sliver deleted'), ('To', u'jbs@pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com'), ('From', u'InstaGENI FOAM at BBN <instageni-foam-admin@gpolab.bbn.com>"')]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/foam/lib/foam/task.py", line 262, in <module>
task_func(opts)
File "/opt/foam/lib/foam/task.py", line 174, in taskSendEmail
s.sendmail(msg["From"], msg["To"], msg.as_string())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 733, in sendmail
raise SMTPRecipientsRefused(senderrs)
SMTPRecipientsRefused: {u'jbs@pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com': (550, '5.7.1 <jbs@pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com>... Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed [192.1.242.134]')}
We've delegated the partial PTR zone in (what I think of as) the usual way, but lemme know if you need more info about what we've got on our side and what you need on yours.
Also, fixing a typo in the description of the ticket.
