From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 10:15:22 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 04D1D37B417; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.sentex.net (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8MHF8S95258; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:15:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010922131438.060e9930@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:15:07 -0400 To: Gregory Neil Shapiro From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: something strange with sendmail 8.11.6 on FreeBSD Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15276.49631.32382.941@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010922082451.05af6d70@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010922082451.05af6d70@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actaully I should have said I get the same problem with that defined in /etc/make.conf ---Mike At 09:52 AM 9/22/2001 -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: >mike> OK, here is a strange one. Using the stock sendmail in FreeBSD >mike> STABLE, I am seeing strange timeouts to some hosts. e.g. mail to >mike> ica.net via icamail.ica.net. > > > dig aaaa icamail.ica.net > >; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> aaaa icamail.ica.net >;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch >;; got answer: >;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4 > ^^^^^^^^ >;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 >;; QUERY SECTION: >;; icamail.ica.net, type = AAAA, class = IN > > > >From sendmail/README: > >When attempting to canonify a hostname, some broken name servers will >return SERVFAIL (a temporary failure) on T_AAAA (IPv6) lookups. If you >want to excuse this behavior, compile sendmail with >-D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS and add WorkAroundBrokenAAAA to your >ResolverOptions setting. However, instead, we recommend catching the >problem and reporting it to the name server administrator so we can rid the >world of broken name servers. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 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