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Article #3191Re: localhost!user
From: Greg Woods
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 17:05
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 17:05
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In article <1835@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
>In 5.61, if you build sendmail with NO_WILDCARD_MX defined, it will look
>for ANY type of domain system RR for the given stuff. This will do what
>you want.
Hmm. I had been told that there were no functional differences between
5.59 and 5.61 other than security fixes, but this is clearly incorrect. I
have verified that what Matt says here is true. I grabbed 5.61 from
Beserkeley, and sure enough, it works fine if I get rid of our wildcard
*.ucar.edu MX record (which I no longer need anyway since all of our hosts
are now attached to the Internet and hence have at least A records already).
Thanks to all who replied. My conclusion is simply that the way 5.59 handles
the name server lookups is brain damaged. If you are having similar problems,
junk 5.59 and get 5.61 (from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu, file 4.3/sendmail.tar.Z)
--Greg
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: localhost!user Message-ID: <1405@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 14 Feb 89 17:05:31 GMT References: <1377@ncar.ucar.edu> <KARL.89Feb9094347@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1398@ncar.ucar.edu> <1835@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 16