Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:23:53 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with "host" command (doesn't return mx records) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003212110210.664-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The host command here is returning only the ip address if it exists (if not, nothing), it doesn't return mx records. I did a make world on March 11 (March 10 in the US), on a machine which acts as a mail relay for other machines in the room. Today I noticed that a few mails didn't seem to be going through because of host lookup failures. For instance, host rri.ernet.in returns merely rri.ernet.in has address 202.41.68.2 (a number which does not accept mail, and in fact no longer exists) whereas the host command on any other machine returns rri.ernet.in has address 202.41.68.2 rri.ernet.in mail is handled (pri=10) by mailserver.rri.res.in rri.ernet.in mail is handled (pri=20) by rri.ernet.in Similarly, host cam.ac.uk returns nothing , while it ought to return cam.ac.uk mail is handled (pri=7) by ppsw.cam.ac.uk cam.ac.uk mail is handled (pri=99) by route-back-x.cam.ac.uk The command used to work earlier, and other than the "make world" there seem to be no other config changes. However, the makeworld was several days ago and I check the mail queue quite regularly, I don't think there was anything unusual before today. Also, all machines here are configured to use the same nameserver (which I also tried specifying explicitly on the commandline), but other machines return the complete mx records and this one doesn't. Any idea what could be wrong, and what else I can do to check? For now I've set up the thing to route mail through another relay, but that's unsatisfactory. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.20.0003212110210.664-100000>