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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 2003 01:00:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/46873: sendmail is not well supported by DNS in default 5.0-RC2 install
Message-ID:  <200301090900.h0990ORT088770@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/46873; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/46873: sendmail is not well supported by DNS in default 5.0-RC2 install
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:50:15 +0200

 On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:16:25AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         46873
 > >Category:       conf
 > >Synopsis:       sendmail is not well supported by DNS in default 5.0-RC2 install
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
 > >Organization:
 > none
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Dec 30 17:04:36 PST 2002     root@localhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
 > 
 > ================
 > >Description:
 > 
 > With a presumably common (for home desktops) sendmail config, my MUA
 > starts a sendmail process to send my message to the "sm-mta" sendmail
 > daemon, but the MUA-started sendmail hangs up for about 80 seconds,
 > apparently because it is trying to do DNS look up for "localhost" using
 > the default IPv6, but the resolver doesn't know how to do reverse lookup
 > and the standard FreeBSD 5.0 install doesn't have "named" running to
 > do the job either.  (I fixed MY problem by telling sendmail to use
 > '[127.0.0.1]' in the "msp" feature, instead of the default.)
 
 What does your /etc/resolv.conf file contain?
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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