From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 11 20:50: 8 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 EF2B037B719; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:49:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2C4nmg54349; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:49:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010311234603.02780ca8@marble.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@marble.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:49:48 -0500 To: Gregory Neil Shapiro From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: DNS related sendmail hangs with 4.3-BETA kernel Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15020.19474.360397.772166@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:09 PM 3/11/2001 -0800, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: >Please try again as I really don't think NETINET6 is a problem. It was a >bug in libc's resolver. There is however, the issue with some resolvers on the net. A number of our clients have run into this annoying problem. ---Mike >Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:33:28 -0800 >From: Gregory Neil Shapiro >To: Claus Assmann >Cc: Mike Atkinson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: LAME domains, sendmail BIND and FreeBSD- its >FreeBSDspecific it seems (was more strange DNS issues in BINDand STABLE.)- >X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.2 (beta42) "Poseidon" XEmacs Lucid >Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG >X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (amavis.org) > >ca> 8.12 will most likely have a workaround for this (as usual >ca> sendmail provides a workaround for almost every broken >ca> configuration...) > >Also, note this from 8.11.2 (to be MFC'ed to RELENG_4 in the near future): > > 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. 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. > >You can do this in your FreeBSD build by adding this to /etc/make.conf: > >SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications 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