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To: terry@cs.weber.edu
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In-reply-to: <9501251537.AA18261@cs.weber.edu> (terry@cs.weber.edu)
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.6.9 - "Name server failure" problem (fwd)
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Just to confirm you that this patch fixed the exact same problem
(incoming mails sitting in the queue until explicitly cleared) I
reported a while ago in this list.  I'm running 2.0R.

Satoshi
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 * > *** src/daemon.c-	Mon Apr 18 06:48:41 1994
 * > --- src/daemon.c	Tue Jan 24 19:38:06 1995
 * > ***************
 * > *** 1406,1411 ****
 * > --- 1406,1414 ----
 * >   	int saveretry;
 * >   
 * >   #if NAMED_BIND
 * > + 	/* need to make sure _res.retry is initialized before using it */
 * > + 	if ((_res.options & RES_INIT) == 0)
 * > + 		res_init();
 * >   	/* shorten name server timeout to avoid higher level timeouts */
 * >   	saveretry = _res.retry;
 * >   	_res.retry = 3;