Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:48:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@bit0.com> To: Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org> Cc: Mike Atkinson <mikea@kconline.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: LAME domains, sendmail BIND and FreeBSD- its FreeBSDspecific it seems (was more strange DNS issues in BINDand STABLE.)- Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101281446480.45648-100000@mindcrime.bit0.com> In-Reply-To: <20010128110741.A6717@zardoc.endmail.org>
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001, Mike Atkinson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dirk Meyer" <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> > > > > > > Please tweak the lines in the sendmail port: > > > files/site.config.m4 to build without NETINET6 or without TCPWRAPPERS. > > > > Removing the NETINET6 lines from files/site.config.m4 seems to have > > corrected the problem. > > This seems to be the explanation: > > $ dig supercom.ca. aaaa > > ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> supercom.ca. aaaa > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch > ;; got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > ;; QUERY SECTION: > ;; supercom.ca, type = AAAA, class = IN > > > 8.12 will most likely have a workaround for this (as usual sendmail > provides a workaround for almost every broken configuration...) > > New ResolverOptions setting: WorkAroundBrokenAAAA. When > attempting to canonify a hostname, some broken nameservers > will return SERVFAIL (a temporary failure) on T_AAAA (IPv6) > lookups. If you want to excuse this behavior, use this new > flag. Suggested by Chris Foote of SE Network Access and > Mark Roth of the University of Illinois at > Urbana-Champaign. Wow, that's pretty bizarre. Finally an explanation that makes some sense though... thanks guys! Mike Andrews * mandrews@dcr.net * mandrews@bit0.com * http://www.bit0.com VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet access for Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville and surrounding counties www.fark.com: If it's not news, it's Fark. (Or something like that.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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