From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 10:33:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C59537B41B; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.sentex.net (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8MHX8S95310; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:33:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010922132118.03779ec0@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:33:06 -0400 To: Gregory Neil Shapiro From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: something strange with sendmail 8.11.6 on FreeBSD Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15276.51275.841757.253895@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010922131438.060e9930@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010922082451.05af6d70@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010922131438.060e9930@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:20 AM 9/22/2001 -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: >mike> Actaully I should have said I get the same problem with that defined in >mike> /etc/make.conf > >Did you also set the WorkAroundBrokenAAAA flag in the ResolverOptions >setting as described? Yes. In my .mc I have tried define(`confBIND_OPTS', `+WorkAroundBrokenAAAA')dnl and define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBrokenAAAA')dnl and I have had for some time, SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS in my /etc/make.conf still, smtp1# !mail mail -v postmaster@ica.net Subject: test EOT postmaster@ica.net... Connecting to icamail.ica.net. via esmtp... postmaster@ica.net... Connecting to mail6.ica.net. via esmtp... postmaster@ica.net... Deferred: Operation timed out with mail6.ica.net. smtp1# I also rebuilt it just to make sure the flags were being passed and it seems to be cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include -DNEWDB -DNIS -DNETINET6 -DTCPWRAPPERS -DMAP_REGEX -DSTARTTLS -D_FFR_TLS_O_T -D_FFR_TLS_1 -D_FFR_TLS_TOREK -D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/udb.c Also, where is it described in the README ? ---Mike > >> >From sendmail/README: > >> > >> When attempting to canonify a hostname, some broken name servers will > >> return SERVFAIL (a temporary failure) on T_AAAA (IPv6) lookups. If you > >> want to excuse this behavior, compile sendmail with > >> -D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS and add WorkAroundBrokenAAAA to your > >> ResolverOptions setting. However, instead, we recommend catching the > >> problem and reporting it to the name server administrator so we can > rid the > >> world of broken name servers. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message