From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 13:52: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DD737B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA01C43E75 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8DKq0ur036875 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:52:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heres one - SMTP / Sendmail Problem In-Reply-To: <20020913200039.GA64074@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Scott Pilz wrote: > > > Take a look at the logs below .. I cannot for the life of me send any > > messages to 'vikingelectric.com' from one paticular machine - all the > > others work just fine. YET, I can ping it and query MX tags just fine > > without a problem: > > Try adding: > > define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBrokenAAAA') > > to your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc and then 'make install' and 'make > restart'. > > Cheers, > > Matthew As an aside, nslookup has its uses, but it is unreliable for actually checking resolvability of a given name at a specific host. This is because it uses its own internal resolution routines rather than the system resolver. Whenever you get a discrepancy between what nslookup reports and what an application sees, double check with dig or another tool. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message