BIND / Sendmail and Bad Referrals

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Jun 27 02:05:44 UTC 2005


At 10:48 PM 24/06/2005, Mark Andrews wrote:

>         link1.rona.ca is returning the wrong SOA record.   The zone
>         is merlin.rona.ca yet it is claiming that it is rona.ca.  Named
>         correctly detects this misconfiguration and marks the server
>         as lame.
>
>         Similarly for link2.
>
>         Mark
>
>; <<>> DiG 9.3.2prerelease <<>> AAAA merlin.rona.ca. +norec @link1.rona.ca.
>; (1 server found)
>;; global options:  printcmd
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21126
>;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;merlin.rona.ca.                        IN      AAAA
>
>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>rona.ca.                86400   IN      SOA     rona.ca. 
>administrator.rona.ca. 998545544 28800 7200 604800 86400
>
>;; Query time: 259 msec
>;; SERVER: 207.61.124.213#53(207.61.124.213)
>;; WHEN: Sat Jun 25 12:44:58 2005
>;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 106


There seems to be very different results using FreeBSD with INET6 and 
without.  With INET6, sendmail complains as I mentioned in the opening 
thread. However, with INET6 disabled in the kernel, mail flows fine to this 
site ?

         ---Mike 



More information about the bind-users mailing list