Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:46:48 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: dinesh@alphaque.com Subject: Re: DNS related sendmail hangs with 4.3-BETA kernel Message-ID: <200103120346.f2C3km905485@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121130560.1021-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121130560.1021-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121130560.1021-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>, Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, John Polstra wrote: > > > Sendmail (and _only_ sendmail) hangs trying to use DNS to resolve > > addresses. The DNS calls eventually time out and fail, but it takes a > > john, > > i saw the same thing when i moved from 4.1R to 4.3-BETA over the last > week. sendmail by default is compiled with IPv6 support and this is what's > causing the seemingly hang when it sends out email. ethereal confirmed > that it was sending out IPv6 DNS queries and attempting to connect thru > IPv6 before reverting back to IPv4. > > remove the "-DNETINET6" in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile and rebuild > sendmail. works fine for me after that. Thanks for the reply. In my case the update of "src/lib/libc/net/res_send.c" that Gregory Neil Shapiro pointed out was the solution to the problem. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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