alt Hacker News>How should the program know?
if we're talking about logs from our own applications that we have written, the program should know because we can write it in a way that it knows.
user-defined config should be verified before it is used. make a ping to port 25 to see if it works before you start using that config for actual operation. if it fails the verification step, that's not an error that needs to be logged.
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1718627440 • yesterday at 7:00 PM
So when the random error on a remote party happens at one time your system ignores it, bu when it happens at another time, it prevents the server from booting? That's a very brittle system.
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What about when the mail server endpoint has changed, and for whatever reason, this configuration wasn’t updated? This is a common scenario when dealing with legacy infrastructure in my experience.