[lug] OT: Dealing with Unreliable Mail/DNS Servers

[Nate Duehr]

On Tuesday, Jan 6, 2004, at 15:06 America/Denver, George Sexton wrote:

> The problem appears to be that I was getting an authoritative NXDOMAIN
> response. I think I found the workaround.
>
> The problem was sendmail first makes a AAAA DNS request. Certain broken
> DNS servers incorrectly return a SERVFAIL or NXDOMAIN response rather
> than the correct response of "No Records". For sendmail, the workaround
> appears to be to add a magic
>
> define(`confBIND_OPTS',`WorkAroundBrokenAAAA')
>
> entry into the .mc file and re-generate the .cf file using M4.

George, do you have an IPv6 address on that box?

If not, wouldn't completely disabling the AAAA lookups altogether save 
a step or two on all mail deliveries?

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com