Drifting OT (was Re: FW: "no data known" vrs "host not found")

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed Apr 3 14:02:12 UTC 2002


James Griffin wrote:
> 
> On my test lan, I have a machine corinth.athena.inc. that sometimes runs
> an http/s server but not mail servers.  In the athena.inc. zone were:
>    athena.inc. CNAME corinth.athena.inc.
>    athena.inc. MX 5 sparta.athena.inc.
>    along with the usual A RRs.

Urm that should trigger a "CNAME and other" error, no?

> FWIW
> 
> From the RELEASE-NOTES for sendmail 8.12.0/8.12.0   2001/09/08
> 
>         T_ANY queries are no longer used by sendmail.

Other MTA's use ANY - so whilst you might be able to work around
other peoples DNS misconfigurations by fiddling with sendmail
versions, and options, I'd take the view that it is someone
elses problem.


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