From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 10 21:38: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DAB37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0B5bXG96980; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:37:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange DNS issue (more) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:37:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <000b01c076a3$e13eccf0$628a13ac@me> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 4 Jan 2001 18:26:20 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you wrote: >> I have mail.xyz.com, www.xyz.com, host.xyz.com as A records in my zone >> files. >> Very sporadically I get a call from someone saying that they cannot = get to >> www.xyz.com. I have them ping around and they can ping mail and host,= but >> www comes back with unknown host. If I have them do an nslookup and = change >> to another DNS server out on the net, it works. A short while later = the >> problem will resolve itself. >... >> Any clues? > >Tell us the real name of the xyz.com domain so that we can check your >name server for ourselves. *Then* we might be able to help. OK, here is a strange DNS issue that is different. =20 Not sure if this is specifically a sendmail or bind issue or a FreeBSD issue. But when sending email to a domain that is LAME (e.g. supercom.ca = or beckett.com)) where the 2 authoritative name servers are giving non authoritative answers, I want to send mail to it anyways. Using the same rev of sendmail on a lINUX box works in conjunction with asking the = FreeBSD nameserver. Any idea why sendmail 8.11 on FreeBSD would be more strict than the same rev on Linux ? # name resolver options #O ResolverOptions=3D+AAONLY ResolverOptions=3D-AAONLY or ResolverOptions=3D Does not seem to have any effect. Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message