Hi, yesterday I debugged a mail problem where the reverse DNS of the receiver is somewhat fucked up (for one receiver the DNS resolving chain was: HostA -> IP-A -> HostB -> IP-B -> HostB, for the other receiver there was no reverse DNS). Sendmail doen't like this, but there are ways to circumvent this. So I added the hosts in question to /etc/hosts (nsswitch contains "hosts: files dns"), and thought this will solve it. It didn't. A temporary (as in "to get those 10 mails out") work-around of "hosts: files" proved that the solution of adding the hosts to /etc/hosts works as expected. The current solution for the general case is to use "hosts: dns files". It gets the correct values for the buggy remote hosts from /etc/hosts, and averything else from DNS. So it seems the order of the use of the entries in nsswitch.conf is reversed. I noticed this on a 6.0 system. I can't test this on a -current system right now (maybe tomorrow or at the weekend), and I don't have a RELENG_6 system. So if someone can confirm if this bug is visible on -current and on RELENG_6: - a fix can be MFCed if it is fixed in -current - someone could try to fix it if the same problem exists in -current - an errata can be added to the release notes of 6.1 if it isn't fixed until the release (that's the reason why I CCed re_at_) Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 I know you think you thought you knew what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you understood what you thought I meant.Received on Thu Feb 16 2006 - 07:46:50 UTC
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