Problems with sendmail+IDA + resolv+

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From: J. Porter Clark
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 00:04

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I'm using sendmail+IDA 1.4.4.1.  One day I tried linking it with Bill
Wisner's resolv+-2.1 resolver.  The /etc/host.conf file looked like
this:

nis
bind

which should mean that ordinary DNS lookups go to NIS first, followed
by BIND.  After I did this, I discovered that some of outgoing mail was
not being delivered because MX mail forwarding wasn't happening.  For
example, when I tried to send a message to abcd@mips9.msfc.nasa.gov,
sendmail kept trying to get mips9 to accept a mail connection; this
doesn't work.  Using Sun's resolver, the message would get sent to
fedex.msfc.nasa.gov, which is MX host returned by DNS; this is the
correct action.

I sent a note to Bill Wisner about this problem, but he replied that it
shouldn't happen.  Has anybody else seen this problem?

The main reason that I tried to link sendmail with resolv+ was that I
thought I might get somewhat less buggy performance with it than with
Sun's resolver, which is supposedly based on older code.  I've since
gone back to using Sun's resolver.

Other details: hardware is a Sun 670MP running SunOS 4.1.2 + many
patches.
--
J. Porter Clark    jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov or jpc@gaia.msfc.nasa.gov
NASA/MSFC Communications Systems Branch

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From: jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Problems with sendmail+IDA + resolv+
Summary: Anybody else have problems with sendmail+IDA + resolv+?
Keywords: sendmail IDA resolv+
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Date: 7 Aug 92 00:04:51 GMT
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