Sendmail gets DNS error looking up domain

[Ali Eghtessadi]

Dear All,

I have a similar problem with running Bind 8.2.2.p5 on solaris 8. The
problem seem to be with IPv6 support on Solaris 8. The DNS queries
return a quad A (AAAA) record for certain domains which support IPv6.
Hosts not supporting IPv6, mostly MS server just seem to drop the
returned info. The work around I found was to do the following which is
a pain :

nslookup -q=any adomain.com                 ** Returns all info about
adomain.com
nslookup -q=mx adomain.com                  ** which caches the mx
record
/usr/lib/sendmail -v -qImessageID -d8.8     ** which then delivers the
message

Any help is also appreciated.

Regards,
Ali

Rick Leonhardt wrote:
> 
> I have a similar question and am too tired from being up all night to read the new 9.1.1.
> book again..
> 
> Sun Solaris 2.7 Bind 9.1.1 rc3 (hiding behind Cisco PIX firewall) some users can't send
> mail They go to www.shutup.org and put in "search for mx record" and say that the name
> returned is NOT the same name as the registered dns server..hmm..
> why does it work for most of the users..is it them?? or me?? thanks..
> 
> "Matthew P. Marino" wrote:
> 
> > Solaris 2.7
> > sendmail 8.11
> > bind 9.1
> >
> > The actual error is "stat=Host unknown (Name server : cswgraphics.com: host not found)"
> > the zone file for named looks like ;
> >
> > $TTL 7200
> >
> > cswgraphics.com. IN SOA mortise.cswgraphics.com.
> > postmaster at mortise.cswgraphics.com. (
> >                                         031401  ;       Serial
> >                                         10800   ;       refresh
> >                                         3600    ;       retry
> >                                         604800  ;       expire
> >                                         7200 )  ;       minttl
> >
> > ;
> > ; Name servers
> >
> > cswgraphics.com.                IN      NS      mortise.cswgraphics.com
> > cswgraphics.com.                IN      MX      10 mortise.cswgraphics.com
> >
> > ;
> > ; Address for canonical names
> >
> > localhost                       IN      A       127.0.0.1
> > mortise                 IN      A       64.65.195.100
> > interjet                        IN      A       64.65.195.99
> > macserver                       IN      A       64.65.195.101
> > wanid                           IN      A       64.65.195.58
> >
> > ;
> > ; Aliases
> >
> > www                             IN      CNAME   mortise
> > ftp                  IN      CNAME   mortise
> > pop                  IN      CNAME   mortise
> > smtp                 IN      CNAME   mortise
> >
> > I'm sure it's a small detail I'm overlooking but those are usualy the ones that
> > getcha.