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Re: mail stuck in transport queue
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:35:17PM -0400, Francis Lau wrote:
> Thanks all.
>
> After looking at the buglog, I notice that there was a bug with the
> dnscache program under zmailer 2.99.53 (2000-Jul-17). I guess my mails
> were stuck in the transport queue because of this (dns mx lookups fail),
> as I was using the dnscache program. However, contrary to the symptoms
> listed on the buglog page, not all the dns mx lookups failed, just
> the ones that looked for utoronto.ca and any entries that were in my hosts
> file. When I removed all the entries in my hosts file (except for localhost)
> , *magically* everything works, including lookups for utoronto.ca.
>
> I followed Matti's advice and looked at the core dumped files and I see
> that the segmentation faults happen in a function call called gaih_inet()
> in libc6.
Possibly configuring with:
--with-ipv6-replacement-libc If system has broken getaddrinfo() and friends
2000-07-30 Matti Aarnio <mea@zmailer.org>
* transports/smtp/getmxrr.c:
dnscache by djb produces replies which don't have NS or AD
sections, and when scanning replies, we had one-off
comparison error which bailed out in case the ANSWER
section reached the end of the reply packet.
This fix is included in 2.99.54
> Is there a patch/fix for the dnscache problem?
Pick this one to replace your current getmxrr.c
http://www.zmailer.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/zmailer/transports/smtp/getmxrr.c?rev=1.33&content-type=text/plain
> After I changed the to bind everything works fine (with the original
> hosts file).
>
> Thanks again,
> Francis
--
/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
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