Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:09:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rls@mail.id.net (Robert Shady) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Message-ID: <199705012009.NAA04968@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705011657.MAA15205@server.id.net> from "Robert Shady" at May 1, 97 12:57:36 pm
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> I've got a serious problem with *ANY* 3.0 snapshots. I've seen several > other people say in the mailing lists that they have experienced similar > problems, but I have yet to see a legitimate answer to them. PLEASE > respond asap. > > The problem: > In certain software packages, the gethostbyname call appears to fail. > The software: > (so far) sendmail, and harvest > > The scenario: > Webserver - Approximately 100 virtual hosts. Running nothing but YP > client, webservices, and sendmail with client (forward) configuration. [ ... ] > Sendmail complains: > =================== > May 1 08:43:33 www001 sendmail[4405]: gethostbyaddr() failed for 199.125.2.95 [ ... ] > Harvest complains: > ================== > broker: 970430 23:43:07: select returned: 1 > broker: 970430 23:43:07: host_cache: get_host (199.125.2.24) Gets host by addr > broker: 970430 23:43:07: getfullhostname: gethostbyname(www001.id.net) returned NULL. Attempts to cannonize name to primar 'A' record. Name returned is not cannonical. Summary: DNS is misconfigured. You are aware that you can not mix versions fo sendmail and bind and changes in versions of FreeBSD networking structures, right? You must rebuild (a *matched*!) sendmail and bind if you update past a structure change. If you replace sendmail (or bind), you must generally replace bind (or sendmail) at the same time. This was especially problematic when they were both "sanitized" for Linux style cshared library usage. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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