Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:51:37 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: something strange with sendmail 8.11.6 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010922134750.037c97e8@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <15276.52856.896099.983550@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010922132118.03779ec0@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010922131438.060e9930@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010922082451.05af6d70@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010922132118.03779ec0@192.168.0.12>
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At 10:46 AM 9/22/2001 -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
>mike> Yes. In my .mc I have tried
>
>mike> define(`confBIND_OPTS', `+WorkAroundBrokenAAAA')dnl
>mike> and
>mike> define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBrokenAAAA')dnl
>
>Ok, try the patch below (from Bill Fenner). If that does it, I'll work on
>getting it committed this weekend.
Yes, it did the trick!
Using SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS in /etc/make.conf
was all I needed. Thanks very much for the fix,
---Mike
>mike> Also, where is it described in the README ?
>
>Line 642 of /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/README.
Hmmm.. Putting down my crack pipe, I can see it now.
>Index: daemon.c
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/sendmail/src/daemon.c,v
>retrieving revision 1.1.1.3.2.6
>diff -u -r1.1.1.3.2.6 daemon.c
>--- daemon.c 2001/08/01 03:19:45 1.1.1.3.2.6
>+++ daemon.c 2001/09/09 19:31:37
>@@ -1877,17 +1877,6 @@
> gothostent:
> if (hp == NULL)
> {
>-# if NAMED_BIND
>- /* check for name server timeouts */
>- if (errno == ETIMEDOUT || h_errno == TRY_AGAIN ||
>- (errno == ECONNREFUSED && UseNameServer))
>- {
>- save_errno = errno;
>- mci_setstat(mci, EX_TEMPFAIL, "4.4.3", NULL);
>- errno = save_errno;
>- return EX_TEMPFAIL;
>- }
>-# endif /* NAMED_BIND */
> # if NETINET6
> /*
> ** Try v6 first, then fall back to v4.
>@@ -1903,6 +1892,17 @@
> if (v6found)
> goto v6tempfail;
> # endif /* NETINET6 */
>+# if NAMED_BIND
>+ /* check for name server timeouts */
>+ if (errno == ETIMEDOUT || h_errno == TRY_AGAIN ||
>+ (errno == ECONNREFUSED && UseNameServer))
>+ {
>+ save_errno = errno;
>+ mci_setstat(mci, EX_TEMPFAIL, "4.4.3", NULL);
>+ errno = save_errno;
>+ return EX_TEMPFAIL;
>+ }
>+# endif /* NAMED_BIND */
> save_errno = errno;
> mci_setstat(mci, EX_NOHOST, "5.1.2", NULL);
> errno = save_errno;
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