From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 18 4:47:33 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 9F52D37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 04:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0IClEX38774; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:47:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.1/8.11.1av) with ESMTP id f0ICl8d38766; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:47:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010118074255.01fc96e8@marble.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@marble.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:47:07 -0500 To: Gregory Bond , Christopher Schulte From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Weird sporadic DNS resolution problems Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200101180717.SAA27712@lightning.itga.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:17 PM 1/18/2001 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: > > For what it's worth, my take: > >This matches some of the things we've noticed here, but in our case sendmail >was on a Solaris box using the FreeBSD box as a caching DNS server.... but >it's slippery enough that I'm not confident what's going on. Actually, this sounds very familiar, especially with the BIND revs. Looking through its CHANGES entry, the only thing I could find that would vaguely refer to such a change is 941. [bug] lame server detection wasn't checking for SOA record. I wonder if using BIND 9.x fixes this "bug" ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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