sendmail and dig hangs on earthlink.net

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. FrankRam at earthlink.net
Fri May 19 15:49:23 UTC 2000


I'm having a problem that seems to be related to DNS.  Sendmail hangs
when trying to resolve earthlink.net.
$ cat .bashrc | sendmail -d xxxxxxxx at earthlink.net
Version 8.9.3
 Compiled with: LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET
                NETUNIX NEWDB NIS QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB
	:
	:
--parseaddr(xxxxxx at earthlink.net)
rewrite: ruleset   3   input: xxxxxx @ earthlink . net
rewrite: ruleset  96   input: xxxxxx < @ earthlink . net >
map_lookup(host, earthlink.net) => host_map_lookup(earthlink.net) => 
----- Hangs until <Ctrl>C ---------

$ dig earthlink.net any

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> earthlink.net any 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
----- Hangs until <Ctrl>C ---------

But, nslookup:
> set q=mx
> earthlink.net
Server:  dns1.texas.rr.com
Address:  24.93.35.32

Non-authoritative answer:
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx00.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx01.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx02.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx03.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx04.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx05.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx06.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx07.earthlink.net
earthlink.net   preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx08.earthlink.net

Authoritative answers can be found from:
mx00.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.28
mx01.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.29
mx04.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.100
mx05.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.121
mx06.earthlink.net      internet address = 207.217.120.130
>
( But set q=any hangs)

I've tried a number of other domains, and all others have succeded.

Any ideas where I can look?

Oh, here's my setup
Internet<--->firewall/dns(caching)/sendmail<--->private lan

Frank
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Integrated Business Technologies Phone: 303-375-2471
IT Systems Specialist  1190 S. Colorado Blvd., #301     Fax:   781-623-5830
MCSE & MCP+Internet    Denver, Colorado  80246 



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