FW: "no data known" vrs "host not found"

[Kevin Darcy]

Will Yardley wrote:

> In article <a8ch5j$afb at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> > Sendmail has traditionally done an ANY query so that it can get look up the
> > MX and A records in one query, rather than first doing an MX query and then
> > an A query if that fails.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is a configurable option or it has changed in recent
> > versions.
>
> i could well be wrong, but i think this changed as of 8.10 or 8.11.

I believe sendmail uses ANY queries up through 8.11.


- Kevin