From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 14 14:25:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22359 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:25:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22351 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgrommet@insolwwb.net) Received: from mikeg (work2.insolwwb.net [208.150.248.12]) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA22226 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:19:47 -0600 (CST) From: mike grommet Reply-To: To: Subject: weird sendmail probs? too many mx's causes probs? Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:25:45 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys. just had a client try to send mail to an account @ bigfoot.com... sendmail rejects him with the following error: Dec 14 16:08:44 ns sendmail[20500]: QAA20500: mail.bigfoot.com.:bftoemail20.bigfoot.com.:bftoemail23.bigfoot.com.:bftoemai l6.bigfoot.com.:bftoemai...ot.com.:bftoemail8.bigfoot.com.:bftoemail20.bigfo ot.com.:bftoemail23.bigfoot.com.:orion.bigfoot.com.... Address too long really strange. I do a dig mx bigfoot.com and get: (truncated) seems like sendmail is croaking out due to massive #'s of mx records... I'm having no other problems at all with mail... and this problem just cropped up I'm running sendmail 8.9.1 got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 19, Auth: 3, Addit: 15 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; bigfoot.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 20 bftoemail8.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 25 bftoemail20.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 25 bftoemail23.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 30 orion.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 10 mail.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 10 bftoemail2.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 10 bftoemail6.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 10 bftoemail8.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 10 bftoemail20.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 10 bftoemail23.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 12 bftoemail20.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 12 bftoemail23.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 15 bftoemail9.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 15 bftoemail10.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 15 bftoemail12.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 17 bftoemail3.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 17 bftoemail4.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 20 bftoemail2.bigfoot.com. bigfoot.com. 8774 MX 20 bftoemail6.bigfoot.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message