Re: Sendmail queue stalled

["Morten Liebach" <m_(_at_)_mongers_(_dot_)_org>]

On 2003-03-16 13:01:40 -0500, Jameel Akari wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Javier Perez wrote:
> 
> > > You should try doing a 'tail -f' of /var/log/maillog
> >
> > Nothing except:
> >
> >   sendmail[19270]: gethostbyaddr(IPv6:::1) failed: 1
> >
> > which I believe that it has nothing to do with the
> > problem

[snip interestinf stuff]

> 	There is an option called "WorkAroundBrokenAAAA" or something like
> that for Sendmail that makes it ignore invalid DNS responses; after we put
> that in we were able to use any DNS server and have mail work.  I don't
> have the exact option on hand but Google should find it for you.

Is it

    define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBrokenAAAA')dnl

You're thinking of?  It's in the default OpenBSD .mc files in
.../gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf/

Hope this helps
                                 Morten

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