sendmail and dig hangs on earthlink.net
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
FrankRam at earthlink.net
Fri May 19 15:49:23 UTC 2000
I'm having a problem that seems to be related to DNS. Sendmail hangs
when trying to resolve earthlink.net.
$ cat .bashrc | sendmail -d xxxxxxxx at earthlink.net
Version 8.9.3
Compiled with: LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET
NETUNIX NEWDB NIS QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB
:
:
--parseaddr(xxxxxx at earthlink.net)
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: xxxxxx @ earthlink . net
rewrite: ruleset 96 input: xxxxxx < @ earthlink . net >
map_lookup(host, earthlink.net) => host_map_lookup(earthlink.net) =>
----- Hangs until <Ctrl>C ---------
$ dig earthlink.net any
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> earthlink.net any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
----- Hangs until <Ctrl>C ---------
But, nslookup:
> set q=mx
> earthlink.net
Server: dns1.texas.rr.com
Address: 24.93.35.32
Non-authoritative answer:
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx00.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx01.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx02.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx03.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx04.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx05.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx06.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx07.earthlink.net
earthlink.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = mx08.earthlink.net
Authoritative answers can be found from:
mx00.earthlink.net internet address = 207.217.120.28
mx01.earthlink.net internet address = 207.217.120.29
mx04.earthlink.net internet address = 207.217.120.100
mx05.earthlink.net internet address = 207.217.120.121
mx06.earthlink.net internet address = 207.217.120.130
>
( But set q=any hangs)
I've tried a number of other domains, and all others have succeded.
Any ideas where I can look?
Oh, here's my setup
Internet<--->firewall/dns(caching)/sendmail<--->private lan
Frank
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Integrated Business Technologies Phone: 303-375-2471
IT Systems Specialist 1190 S. Colorado Blvd., #301 Fax: 781-623-5830
MCSE & MCP+Internet Denver, Colorado 80246
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