From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 8: 6:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CA0237B947 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:06:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 928 invoked by uid 211); 21 Mar 2000 16:06:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Mar 2000 16:06:22 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:36:22 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with "host" command (doesn't return mx records) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Continuation of my other mail: > The host command here is returning only the ip address if it > exists (if not, nothing), it doesn't return mx records. > 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 In the 10 minutes since I typed this in, the problem seems to have automagically cleared up. Or rather, host cam.ac.uk now returns There is an entry for this host, but it doesn't have an Internet address. However, host -t mx cam.ac.uk now returns the correct mx records. (Earlier, ie before March 10, the -t mx was never necessary.) Moreover, the mail queue is now clearing, so it seems qmail is getting the mx records properly. I don't know whether this is normal behaviour now... but at least the machine is working. I'd still like to hear any clarifications. Thanks Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message